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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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