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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

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.

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Nature, Fall, Arms
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3594, Delphi Classics

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

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Slavery, Yoke, Weak

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

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Thinking, Trying, Has Beens
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

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Men, Conversation, Dictionary

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

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Creativity, Creative, Energy

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

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Thinking, Hands, Decision

No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]

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Devil, Sake

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

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Doctrine, Deny, Seems

Duty is the demand of the hour.

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Demand, Hours, Duty
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

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Demand, Duty, Dies

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

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Errors, Sea, Use

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

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Faith, Saving, Coins

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

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May, Faults, Offensive
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

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Mean, Men, Vanity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.103

He who is resolute conquers grief.

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Grief, Conquer, Resolute

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

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Hero, Men, Fur

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

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Devil, World, Shapes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1833). “Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of Savigny's 'Of the vocation of our age for legislation'”, p.95

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

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Light, Oil, Shining
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.30, Lulu.com

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

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Passion, Safety, Demon

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

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Liberty, Printing, Freedom Of The Press

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]

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Taken, Sky, Tree

The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

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Fun, Trouble, Gross

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

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Truth

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

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Race, Dizzy, Weakness

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

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Wisdom, Found, Dies

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