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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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