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Character is a perfectly educated will.
Novalis
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Novalis
Age: 28 †
Born: 1772
Born: May 2
Died: 1801
Died: March 25
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
Friedrich von Hardenberg
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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