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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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