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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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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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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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