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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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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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