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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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