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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wealth, Burden

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Book, Years, People

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

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Struggle, Two, Soul
Faust pt. 1 "Vor dem Thor" (1808)

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Science, Details

The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Law, Keys

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christian, Jesus, Earth

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

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Happiness, Spring, Moderation
"When did moderate become a political dirty word?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2012.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sympathy, Ordinary, Want
Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1877). “Correspondence Between Schiller and Goethe, from 1794 to 1805”

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Doe, Imagine

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

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Helping, Lord, Help Me

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Compassion, Sparrows, Feels

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Finals, Causes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.347

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom, Age, World

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Acceptance, Sacrifice, Sacrificing Everything

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Animal, Opportunity, Men

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Eye, Past
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3526, Delphi Classics

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Real, Use, Poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.256, Ravenio Books

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Party, Giving, Doe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.427

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What Matters, Excellence, Accomplish

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Marriage, Way, Married

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Revealing, Mankind
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.211, Ravenio Books

On all the peaks lies peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace, Nature, Lying

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.88, Princeton University Press

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Taken, Pieces, Construction

I am the Spirit that denies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spirit, Deny
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Faust: Top Classic of German”, p.70, 谷月社

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