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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

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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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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