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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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