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• English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre!

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• Colors are light’s suffering and joy.

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• It is not doing the thing we like, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life happy.

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• Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

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• The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

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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.

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• In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

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• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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• Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

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• Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

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• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

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  Nothing is worth more than this day.

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• All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

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• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

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• We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as G-d gives them to us.

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• We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them!

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  I love those who yearn for the impossible.

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• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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• Talent develops in quiet. Character in the torrent of the world.

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  If you would create something, you must be something.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (262)

Birth:	28th August, 1749
Death:	22nd March, 1832
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Politician

About

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was a German poet, novelist, philosopher, playwright, and politician. He wrote several plays include: Götz von Berlichingen, Clavigo, Stella, Iphigenia in Tauris, Egmont, Torquato Tasso, The Citizen General, The Natural Daughter, and Faust. He wrote several poems include: The King in Thule, Welcome and Farewell, Erlkönig, Prometheus, Roman Elegies, Hermann and Dorothea, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Marienbad Elegy. He wrote several novels include: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years.

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