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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Biography : German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
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Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
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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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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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I call architecture frozen music.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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In art the best is good enough.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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