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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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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Let there be truth between us.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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