Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
German writer and poet
Lived from: 1749 - 1832
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
Germany
Born: 28 august 1749 Died: 22 march 1832
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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