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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

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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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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