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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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