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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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