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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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