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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
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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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life's objective is life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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