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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Every second is of infinite value.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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