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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

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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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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