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Pure truth is for God alone.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Age: 52 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 22
Died: 1781
Died: February 15
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Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man
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Resist as much as thou wilt heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
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What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
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Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
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Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.
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For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
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It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.
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With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.
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It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.
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The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
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The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.
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The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.
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To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.
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It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
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How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?
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Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
