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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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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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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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