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To know where a thing is we must have found 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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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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Precaution is better than cure.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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