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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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