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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

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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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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