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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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