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Let there be truth between us.
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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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Originality provokes originality.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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