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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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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There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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The world remains ever the same.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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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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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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