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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

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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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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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