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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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