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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

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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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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