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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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The solution of every problem is another problem
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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