“The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, book Faust

Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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Faust, Part 1 (1808)

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German writer, artist, and politician 1749–1832

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