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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.
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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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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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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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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