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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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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 shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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