Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Thought, hope, and love remain there as before,Till Cynthia gleams upon me as of old.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No one now for wine shall languish!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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