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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist [more author details]

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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is worth more than this day.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The happy do not believe in miracles.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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