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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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