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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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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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