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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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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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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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