Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — a remark

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“Every hope is, in itself, a good deed.”

Original: Jede Hoffnung ist eigentlich eine gute Tat. — Hope is presented not merely as an emotion but as something that can itself have a positive moral effect. · Conversation with Friedrich von Müller, 26 January 1825 (German)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28 August 1749–22 March 1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main and dead 22 March 1832 in Weimar, became during his own lifetime a European institution: poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, civil servant, theater director, scientific investigator, memoirist, and theorist of culture. To call him Germany’s greatest…

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“A person who has lived for a long time amid important circumstances will not encounter everything that can happen to a human being, but will encounter its equivalents.”

Original: Wer lange in bedeutenden Verhältnissen lebt, dem begegnet freilich nicht alles was dem Menschen begegnen kann; aber doch das Analoge, und vielleicht einiges was ohne Beispiel war. — Long experience cannot encompass everything, but it provides patterns by which unfamiliar events can be understood. · Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (German)

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