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

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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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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