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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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