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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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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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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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