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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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