"Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own."
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"The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities."
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"Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it."
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"This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest."
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"True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them."
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"We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant."
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"For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]"
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"If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet."
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"New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to."
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"We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand."
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"Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage"
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"Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom."
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"I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!"
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"It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine."
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"If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well."
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"[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal."
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"Give your stuff away and if it's good, people will come to you."
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"This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country."
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"I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education."
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"Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition."
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