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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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Frankfurt/Main
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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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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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One lives but once in the world.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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