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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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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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