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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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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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Originality provokes originality.
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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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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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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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