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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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