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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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