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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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