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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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