Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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Alternative Names: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Q5879 Goethe Johann Wolfgang Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Göthe Johann Wolfgang Göthe Göthe

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Whatever is the lot of humankind
I want to taste within my deepest self.
I want to seize the highest and the lowest,
to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,
and thus expand my single self titanically
and in the end go down with all the rest.

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