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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Life's objective is life itself.
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