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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.
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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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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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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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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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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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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