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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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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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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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