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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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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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