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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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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.
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