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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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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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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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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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