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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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