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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
Nationality:   German
 
Date of Birth:   Aug 28, 1749
 
Date of Death:   Mar 22,  1832
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
 
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Age merely shows what children we remain.
 
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
 
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
 
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
 
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
 
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Love can do much, but duty more.
 
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
 
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
 
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
 
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
 
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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
 
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
 
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
 
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.
 
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