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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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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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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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