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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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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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