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I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

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Long, May, Description

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

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Country, Poet, Dens

As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

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God, Men, Mockery

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

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Happiness, Lying, Sides

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]

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Heart, Gone, My Heart

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

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Heart, Perfect, Ease

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]

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Heart, Difficulty, Wounded Heart

All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

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Rights, Race, Law

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

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Errors, Mind, Library
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.311

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

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Literature, Littles, Fragments

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]

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Lying

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

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Brother, Men, Beloved

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

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Long, Training, Negative
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German of Goethe”, p.84

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

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Girl, Men, Brave

To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]

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Music, Moving, Blow

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

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Nature, Spring, Rain
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

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Beautiful, Weather, Long

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

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Love, Elderly, Years

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

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Love, Claims, Lays

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

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Love, Way, Faces

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

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Love, Love Is, Hatred

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

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Forever, Quality, Spirit

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

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God, Nature, Play

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

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Religious, Arbitrary, Chance

One spares old people just as one spares children.

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Children, People, Age

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