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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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The aim of living is life itself.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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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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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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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 Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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