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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life it is only part of our experience we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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