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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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