Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."	Adversity, Art, Difficulty
"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Hope
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."	Books, Knowledge, Men
"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?"	Age, Knowledge, Money
"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."	Miscellaneous
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."	Age, Courage, Men
"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."	Honesty, Men, Nature
"Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something."	Life, Opportunity
"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be."	Men
"Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame."	Desires, Love, Men
"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."	Art, Lies, Love
"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."	Darkness, Knowledge, Light
"Plunge boldly into the thick of life!"	Age, Life
"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed"	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."	Ignorance
"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."	Life, Love
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."	Age, Love
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."	Ability, Character, Talent
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."	Age, Knowledge, Wisdom
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."	Men, Mistakes
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Art	Beginnings	Books
Change	Character	Courage
Creativity	Darkness	Death
Desires	Destiny	Destruction
Difficulty	Doubt	Dreams
Education	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Failure	Faith
Fate	Friends	Genius
Goals	Government	Happiness
Help	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Ignorance	Insults
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Lies
Life	Light	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Peace	Poetry	Power
Reading	School	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Stupidity
Talent	Teaching	Time
Truth	Virtue	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing
Women	Writing