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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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