Christian Furchtegott Gellert quotes
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“Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]”
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“Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.”
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“Jesus lives, to Him the Throne Over all the world is given, May we go where He is gone, Rest and reign with Him in heaven. Alleluia!”
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“Happy the man who knows his duties!”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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