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The aim of living is life itself.
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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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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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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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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