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Forget Not That The Man Who Cannot Enjoy His Own Natural Gifts In Silence, And Find His Reward In The Exercise Of Them, Will Generally Find Himself Badly Off.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Forget Not That The Man Who Cannot Enjoy His Own Natural Gifts In Silence, And Find His Reward In The Exercise Of Them, Will Generally Find Himself Badly Off.

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Thank God When He Lays A Burden On Thee, And Thank Him When He Takes It Off.

The History Of Science Is Science Itself; The History Of The Individual, The Individual.

Habit Is A Man's Sole Comfort. We Dislike Doing Without Even Unpleasant Things To Which We Have Become Accustomed.

True Happiness Springs From Moderation.

What Makes People Happy Is Activity; Changing Evil Itself Into Good By Power, Working In A God Like Manner.

Without My Attempts In Natural Science, I Should Never Have Learned To Know Mankind Such As It Is. In Nothing Else Can We So Closely Approach Pure Contemplation And Thought, So Closely Observe The Errors Of The Senses And Of The Understanding, The Weak And Strong Points Of Character.

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We Are Forced To Participate In The Games Of Life Before We Can Possibly Learn How To Use The Options In The Rules Governing Them.

We Are Not All Equal, Nor Can We Be So.

The Misfortune In The State Is, That Nobody Can Enjoy Life In Peace, But That Everybody Must Govern; And In Art, That Nobody Will Enjoy What Has Been Produced, But That Every One Wants To Reproduce On His Own Account.

Man Knows Himself Only Insofar As He Knows The World, Becoming Aware Of It If Only Within Himself, And Of Himself Self Only Within It. Each New Subject, Well Observed, Opens Up Within Us A New Organ Of Thought.

Nature! We Are Surrounded By Her And Locked In Her Clasp: Powerless To Leave Her, And Powerless To Come Closer To Her. Unasked And Unwarned She Takes Us Up Into The Whirl Of Her Dance, And Hurries On With Us Till We Are Weary And Fall From Her Arms.

How Can We Know Ourselves? Never By Reflection, But Only Through Action. Begin At Once To Do Your Duty And Immediately You Will Know What Is Inside You.

Traveling Is Like Gambling: It Is Always Connected With Winning And Losing And Generally Where It Is Least Expected We Receive, More Or Less Than What We Hoped For.

Those Who Have No Hope For A Future Life Are Already Dead For The Present One.

All Our Knowledge Is Symbolic.

If The Whole World I Once Could See On Free Soil Stand, With The People Free Then To The Moment Might I Say, Linger Awhile. . .so Fair Thou Art.

A Mathematician Is Only Perfect Insofar As He Is A Perfect Man, Sensitive To The Beauty Of Truth.

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The Beautiful Is A Phenomenon Which Is Never Apparent Of Itself, But Is Reflected In A Thousand Different Works Of The Creator.

Light Has Called Forth One Organ To Become Its Like, And Thus The Eye Is Formed By The Light And For The Light So That The Inner Light May Emerge To Meet The Outer Light.

Writing History Is A Method Of Getting Rid Of The Past.

Yes! To This Thought I Hold With Firm Persistence; The Last Result Of Wisdom Stamps It True; He Only Earns His Freedom And Existence Who Daily Conquers Them Anew.

I Am Very Anxious To Please The Public, Particularly As It Lives And Lets Live.

He Who Cannot Draw On Three Thousand Years Is Living From Hand To Mouth.

I Think That I Am Better Than The People Who Are Trying To Reform Me.

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Chess Is The Touchstone Of Intellect.

Piety Is Not An End, But A Means: A Means Of Attaining The Highest Culture By The Purest Tranquility Of Soul. Hence It May Be Observed That Those Who Set Up Piety As An End And Object Are Mostly Hypocrites.

Mannerism Always Wants To Be Finished And Doesn't Enjoy The Process. Genuine, Truly Great Talent, However, Finds Its Greatest Satisfaction In The Production.

A Great Revolution Is Never The Fault Of The People, But Of The Government.

Error Is To Truth As Sleep Is To Waking. I Have Observed That One Turns, As If Refreshed, From Error Back To Truth.

The Eye Doesn't See Any Shapes, It Sees Only What Is Differentiated Through Light And Dark Or Through Colors.

Ohne Hast, Aber Ohne Rast. - Without Haste, But Without Rest.

Lay Hold Of Life With Both Hands, Whenever Thou Mayest Seize It, It Is Interesting.

Courage Is The Commitment To Begin Without Any Guarantee Of Success.

The Highest Problem Of Any Art Is To Cause By Appearance The Illusion Of A Higher Reality.

A Useless Life Is An Early Death. [ger., Ein Unnutz Leben Ist Ein Fruher Tod.]

But When All Is Said, The Greatest Art Is To Limit And Isolate Oneself.

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If You Wish To Advance Into The Infinite, Explore The Finite In All Directions.

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No One As Ever Completed Their Apprenticeship.

If You Inquire What People Are Like Here, I Must Answer, "the Same As Everywhere."

Certain Faults Are Necessary To The Individual If He Is To Exist.

Self-knowledge Comes From Knowing Other Men.

If You Live Criticizing People, You Won't Have Time To Love Them.

It Is A Great Pleasure To Transport One's-self Into The Spirit Of The Times; To See How A Wise Man Has Thought Before Us, And To What A Glorious Height We Have At Last Carried It.

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I Call Architecture Frozen Music.

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To Like Things Like, Whatever One May Ail; There Is Certain Help.

What Is Part Of You, You Cannot Get Rid Of, Even If You Were To Throw It Away.

Every Form Correctly Seen Is Beautiful

To Become Aware In Time When Young Of The Advantages Of Age; To Maintain The Advantages Of Youth In Old Age: Both Are Pure Fortune.

The World Sees Only The Reflection Of Merit; Therefore When You Come To Know A Really Great Man Intimately, You May As Often Find Him Above As Below His Reputation.

Care Is Taken That Trees Do Not Grow Into The Sky. [ger., Es Ist Dafur Gesorgt, Dass Die Baume Nicht In Den Himmel Wachsen.]

The Ground That A Good Man Treads Is Hallowed.

We Gladly Put Antiquity Above Our Age But Not Posterity. Only A Father Doesn't Begrudge His Son's Talent.

Science And Art Belong To The Whole World, And Before Them Vanish The Barriers Of Nationality.

Character - In Things Great And Small - Is Indicated When A Man (or Person) Pursues With Sustained Follow-through What He Feels Himself Capable Of Doing.

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As To The Value Of Conversions, God Alone Can Judge. God Alone Can Know How Wide Are The Steps Which The Soul Has To Take Before It Can Approach To A Community With Him, To The Dwelling Of The Perfect, Or To The Intercourse And Friendship Of Higher Natures.

Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's First Wife Is She. Beware The Lure Within Her Lovely Tresses, The Splendid Sole Adornment Of Her Hair; When She Succeeds Therewith A Youth To Snare, Not Soon Again She Frees Him From Her Jesses.

Perfection Is The Measure Of Heaven, And The Wish To Be Perfect The Measure Of Man.

Cursed Mammon Be, When He With Treasures To Restless Action Spurs Our Fate! Cursed When For Soft, Indulgent Leisures, He Lays For Us The Pillows Straight.

Ah! My Poor Brain Is Racked And Crazed, My Spirit And Senses Amazed!

Were Not The Eye Made To Receive The Rays Of The Sun, It Could Not Behold The Sun; If The Peculiar Power Of God Lay Not In Us, How Could The Godlike Charm Us?

We Are The Slaves Of Objects Around Us, And Appear Little Or Important According As These Contract Or Give Us Room To Expand.

Love Is An Ideal Thing, Marriage A Real Thing; A Confusion Of The Real With The Ideal Never Goes Unpunished.

Since Time Is Not A Person We Can Overtake When He Is Gone, Let Us Honor Him With Mirth And Cheerfulness Of Heart While He Is Passing.

Life Belongs To The Living, And He Who Lives Must Be Prepared For Changes.

A Word Spoken Is A Terrible Thing When It Suddenly Utters What The Heart Has Long Allowed.

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.

Know'st Thou The Land Where The Lemon-trees Bloom, Where The Gold Orange Glows In The Deep Thicket's Gloom, Where A Wind Ever Soft From The Blue Heaven Blows, And The Groves Are Of Laurel And Myrtle And Rose!

Energy Is The Basis Of Everything. Every Jew, No Matter How Insignificant, Is Engaged In Some Decisive And Immediate Pursuit Of A Goal... It Is The Most Perpetual People Of The Earth.

There Is No Better Deliverance From The World Than Through Art, And A Man Can Form No Surer Bond With It.

A Leaf That Is Destined To Grow Large Is Full Of Grooves And Wrinkles At The Start. Now If One Has No Patience And Wants It Smooth Offhand Like A Willow Leaf, There Is Trouble Ahead.

Help Me To Discover Thy Truth, O Lord, And Preserve Me From Those Who Have Already Found It

Wishes Are Premonitions Of Abilities.

Nothing Is More Odious Than The Majority, For It Consists Of A Few Powerful Leaders, A Certain Number Of Accommodating Scoundrels And Submissive Weaklings, And A Mass Of Men Who Trot After Them Without Thinking, Or Knowing Their Own Minds.

What In Us The Women Leave Uncultivated, Children Cultivate When We Retain Them Near Us.

There Are But Two Roads That Lead To An Important Goal And To The Doing Of Great Things: Strength And Perseverance. Strength Is The Lot Of But A Few Privileged Men; But Austere Perseverance, Harsh And Continuous, May Be Employed By The Smallest Of Us And Rarely Fails Of Its Purpose, For Its Silent Power Grows Irresistibly Greater With Time.

Only The Heart Without A Stain Knows Perfect Ease. [ger., Ganz Unbefleckt Geniesst Sich Nur Das Herz.]

The Best Way To Understand A Painting Is By Drawing It.

If I Say To The Moment: 'stay Now! You Are So Beautiful'!

To Quit Smoking, You Must First Want To Quit, But Then You Must Also Do The Quitting

A Man Who Cannot Command Himself Will Always Be A Slave.

Man Believes Himself Always Greater Than He Is, And Is Esteemed Less Than He Is Worth.

A Man May Twist As He Pleases, And Do What He Pleases, But He Inevitably Comes Back To The Track To Which Nature Has Destined Him.

Experience Is Only Half Of Experience.

That Is The Way Of Youth And Life In General: That We Do Not Understand The Strategy Until After The Campaign Is Over.

All Men Would Be Masters Of Others, And No Man Is Lord Of Himself.

Don't Give Us Your Doubts, Gives Us Your Certainties, For We Have Doubts Enough Of Our Own.

Secrecy Has Many Advantages, For When You Tell Someone The Purpose Of Any Object Right Away, They Often Think There Is Nothing To It.

Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day.

Boldness Has Power, Magic And Genius In It.

Whatever Is The Lot Of Humankind I Want To Taste Within My Deepest Self. I Want To Seize The Highest And The Lowest, To Load Its Woe And Bliss Upon My Breast, And Thus Expand My Single Self Titanically And In The End Go Down With All The Rest.

If Each One Does Their Duty As An Individual And If Each One Works In Their Own Proper Vocation, It Will Be Right With The Whole.

Character, In Great And Little Things, Means Carrying Through What You Feel Able To Do.

If Any Man Wish To Write In A Clear Style, Let Him Be First Clear In His Thoughts; And If Any Would Write In A Noble Style, Let Him First Possess A Noble Soul.

We Are Our Own Devils; We Drive Ourselves Out Of Our Edens.

One Criticizes The English For Carrying Their Teapots Wherever They Go, Even Lugging Them Up Mount Etna. But Doesn't Every Nationhave Its Teapot, In Which, Even When Traveling, It Brews The Dried Bundles Of Herbs Brought From Home?

Ah, How Often I've Cursed Those Foolish Pages, That Showed My Youthful Sufferings To Everyone! If Werther Had Been My Brother, And I'd Killed Him, His Sad Ghost Could Hardly Have Persecuted Me More.

It Is Much Easier To Meet With Error Than To Find Truth; Error Is On The Surface, And Can Be More Easily Met With; Truth Is Hid In Great Depths, The Way To Seek Does Not Appear To All The World.

All Ages Have Said And Repeated That One Should Strive To Know One's Self. This Is A Strange Demand Which No One Up To Now Has Measured Up To And, Strictly Considered, No One Should. With All Their Study And Effort, People Are Directed To What Is Outside, To The World About Them, And They Are Kept Busy Coming To Know This And To Master It To The Extent That Their Purposes Require. . . . How Can You Come To Know Yourself? Never By Thinking, Always By Doing. Try To Do Your Duty, And You'll Know Right Away What You Amount To. And What Is Your Duty? Whatever The Day Calls For.

Of The Book Of Books Most Wondrous Is The Tender Book Of Love.

Daring Ideas Are Like Chessmen Moved Forward; They May Be Beaten, But They May Start A Winning Game.

To Blow Is Not To Play On The Flute; You Must Move The Fingers. [ger., Blasen Ist Nicht Floten, Ihr Musst Die Finger Bewegen.]

Whoever Strikes At Marriage Either By Word Or Act Undermines The Foundation Of All Moral Society.

One Is Led Astray Alike By Sympathy And Coldness, By Praise And By Blame

We Learn To Treasure What Is Above This Earth; We Long For Revelation, Which Nowhere Burns More Purely And More Beautifully Than In The New Testament.

We Often Feel That We Lack Something, And Seem To See That Very Quality In Someone Else, Promptly Attributing All Our Own Qualities To Him Too, And A Kind Of Ideal Contentment As Well. And So The Happy Mortal Is A Model Of Complete Perfection--which We Have Ourselves Created.

Rejoice That You Have Still Have A Long Time To Live, Before The Thought Comes To You That There Is Nothing More In The World To See.

When I Say To The Moment Flying; 'linger A While -- Thou Art So Fair!' Then Bind Me In Thy Bonds Undying, And My Final Ruin I Will Bear!

Sweet Moonlight, Shining Full And Clear, Why Do You Light My Torture Here? How Often Have You Seen Me Toil, Burning Last Drops Of Midnight Oil. On Books And Papers As I Read, My Friend, Your Mournful Light You Shed. If Only I Could Flee This Den And Walk The Mountain-tops Again, Through Moonlit Meadows Make My Way, In Mountain Caves With Spirits Play - Released From Learning's Musty Cell, Your Healing Dew Would Make Me Well!

Many Hammer All Over The Wall And Believe That With Each Blow They Hit The Nail On The Head.

If You Are Convinced Of A Matter, You Must Take Sides Or You Don't Deserve To Succeed.

There Are Two Things Parents Should Give Their Children Roots And Wings. Roots To Give Them Bearing And A Sense Of Belonging, But Also Wings To Help Free Them From Constraints And Prejudices And Give Them Other Ways To Travel (or Rather, To Fly).

Just Begin And The Mind Grows Heated; Continue, And The Task Will Be Completed!

If You Want To Understand Poetry, You Have To Go To Its Origin, If You Want To Understand The Poet, You Have To Go To The Poet's Home.

Gray Is The Color Of All Theory

For Usually People Resist As Long As They Can To Dismiss The Fool They Harbor In Their Bosom, They Resist To Confess A Major Mistake Or To Admit A Truth That Makes Them Despair.

Nature Does Not Suffer Her Veil To Be Taken From Her, And What She Does Not Choose To Reveal To The Spirit, Thou Wilt Not Wrest From Her By Levers And Screws.

The Thinking Person Has The Strange Characteristic To Like To Create A Fantasy In The Place Of The Unsolved Problem, A Fantasy That Stays With The Person Even When The Problem Has Been Solved And Truth Made Its Appearance.

Behavior Is A Mirror In Which Every One Shows His Image. [ger., Das Betragen Ist Ein Spiegel In Welchem Jeder Sein Bild Zeigt.]

While Man's Desires And Aspirations Stir He Cannot Choose But Err.

It Is A Mistake For A Taciturn, Serious-minded Woman To Marry A Jovial Man, But Not For A Serious-minded Man To Marry A Lighthearted Woman.

A Vain Man Can Never Be Utterly Ruthless: He Wants To Win Applause And Therefore He Accommodates Himself To Others

A Wounded Heart Can With Difficulty Be Cured. [ger., Doch Ein Gekranktes Herz Erholt Sich Schwer.]

A Wife Is A Gift Bestowed Upon A Man To Reconcile Him To The Loss Of Paradise.

He Is A Man Whom It Is Impossible To Please, Because He Is Never Pleased With Himself.

As Soon As You Are In A Social Setting, You Better Take Away The Key To The Lock Of Your Heart And Pocket It; Those Who Leave Thekey In The Lock Are Fools.

Every Step Of Life Shows Much Caution Is Required.

It Is The Nature Of Grace Always To Fill Spaces That Have Been Empty.

Mannerism Is Always Longing To Have Done, And Has No True Enjoyment In Work. A Genuine, Really Great Talent, On The Other Hand, Has Its Greatest Happiness In Execution.

Take Care Of Your Body With Steadfast Fidelity.

Those Only Obtain Love, For The Most Part, Who Seek It Not.

It Doesn't Behoove Elderly Persons To Follow Fashion In Their Thinking Nor In The Way They Dress.

Gifts Come From Above In Their Own Peculiar Forms.

Profoundness, Genius, Spontaneity, Merit, Nobility, Ingenuity, Voice Propriety, Feeling, Discernment, Sensibility, Good Taste, Great Tone, Rightness, Courtliness, Vivacity, Boldness, Style, Freshness, Harmony, Perfection, Imagination, Purity, Correctness. The Greatest Writer Of All Times. God's Most Astonishing Creation.

There Is No Crime Of Which I Do Not Deem Myself Capable.

We Can Offer Up Much In The Large, But To Make Sacrifices In Little Things Is What We Are Seldom Equal To.

Say What You Will Of Fortitude, But Show Me The Man Who Can Patiently Endure The Laughter Of Fools When They Have Obtained An Advantage Over Him. 'tis Only When Their Nonsense Is Without Foundation That One Can Suffer It Without Complaint.

There Is Nothing More Frightful Than An Active Ignorance. [ger., Es Ist Nichts Schrecklicher Als Eine Thatige Unwissenheit.]

Nothing Is More Fearful Than Imagination Without Taste.

Nature Goes Her Own Way, And All That To Us Seems An Exception Is Really According To Order.

A Phenomenon Like Mozart Remains An Inexplicable Thing.

If Everyone Sweeps Before His Own Front Door, Then The Street Is Clean.

Deny Yourself! You Must Deny Yourself! That Is The Song That Never Ends.

Words Express Neither Objects Nor Ourselves.

Nothing Can Be Compared To The New Life That The Discovery Of Another Country Provides For A Thoughtful Person. Although I Am Still The Same I Believe To Have Changed To The Bones.

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.

It Is Equally A Mistake To Hold One's Self Too High, Or To Rate One's Self Too Cheap.

Things Which Matter Most Must Never Be At The Mercy Of Things Which Matter Least.

No Wonder We Are All More Or Less Pleased With Mediocrity, Since It Leaves Us At Rest, And Gives The Same Comfortable Feeling As When One Associates With His Equals.

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