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Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wisdom and Prudence

Would you attain, my dear friend,
  to the loftiest summit of wisdom,
Dare it and be not afraid,
  should you by prudence be scoffed.

Prudence shortsightedly sees
  of the shores but the one that recedeth.
But she can never discern
  that one for which you set sail.

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