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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Architecture is crystallized music.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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