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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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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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