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The history of a man is in his character.
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 act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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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 assault of our enemies is not part of our life it is only part of our experience we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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