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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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