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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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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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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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