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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life it is only part of our experience we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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