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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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