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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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