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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






On all the peaks lies peace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






I call architecture frozen music.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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