"A noble man is led by woman's gentle words."
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"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."
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"One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world."
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"As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth."
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"Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original."
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"National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age."
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"The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us."
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"Mastery is often taken for egotism."
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"It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself."
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"The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home."
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"It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place."
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"Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!"
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"Nature is the living, visible garment of God."
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"Writing is busy idleness."
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"If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world."
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"We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!"
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"To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years."
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"When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent."
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"What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe."
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"The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted."
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