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We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.


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FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
KAJETAN VON SCHLAGGENBERG The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
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