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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

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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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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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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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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