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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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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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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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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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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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