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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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