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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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