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Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born on August 28, 1749, and died on March 22, 1832, was a prominent German writer, thinker, and scientist. He is one of the greatest writers in German literary history and his works have had a profound impact on the world. His most famous works include 'Faust' and 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. more

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

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Author:Dorothy Parker

“Friends don't count the cost of favors.”

Cost Favors

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”

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Author:Daniel Handler

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.”

Courageous Cowardly

Author:Aristotle

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.”

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Author:Eden Ahbez

“The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.”

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Book:Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

“...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.”

Thinking Love Laughing Laughter Smile Love Relationship Gift Of Laughter

Book:Once Upon a Time: A True Story

Source: Once Upon a Time: A True Story

“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”

Cried Max Wild Things

Book:Where the wild things are

Source: Where the wild things are

Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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