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" "Rest not
Life is sweeping by
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
leave behind to conquer time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar.
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