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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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