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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?

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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Frankfurt/Main
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