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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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