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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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