Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman, known for his influential works like 'Faust' and his exploration of human emotion and nature.

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Born
August 28, 1749
Died
March 22, 1832
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"Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up."

Opportunity Buttons Firsts
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"Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child."

Children Adults Literature
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"Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves."

People Belief Opinion
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"Sin writes histories, goodness is silent."

Writing History Sin
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"Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise."

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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."

Wise Wisdom Time
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"Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them."

Self Ideas People
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"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."

Government People Faults
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"Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality."

Art Science World
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"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."

Self Esteem Believe Yoga
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"The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle."

Circles Realizing Turns
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"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

Life Softball Wisdom
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"Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more."

Love Inspiring Philosophy
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"What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes."

Eye Simple Hardest
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"Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end."

Knowledge Belief Ends
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"There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings."

Baby Children Wings
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"True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away."

Love Is Empty Fortune
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