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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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