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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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