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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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