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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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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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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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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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