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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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