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Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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Mehr Licht!
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He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe