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“Encourage the beautiful, the useful will take care of itself.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

widely attributed to Goethe without citation from the works of Goethe
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“More light!”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last words, as quoted in The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 24 (1834), p. 501 [He apparently, here, asking for the shutters to be opened to admit more light, nothing more.]
Original: (de) Mehr Licht!

“I know a little of navigation: / War, trade, and piracy, allow, / As three in one, no separation.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe buch Goethes Faust

Quelle: Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Scene 3

“The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.
Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aid
Of wings to lift the body can bequeath me.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe buch Goethes Faust

Quelle: Faust. Translation by Bayard Taylor