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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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The solution of every problem is another problem
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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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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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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