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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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