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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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