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Maxims and Reflections

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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How many years must a man do nothing before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

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Duty: where a man loves what he commands himself to do.

Literature and Art

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When Madame Roland was on the scaffold, she asked for pen and paper, to note the peculiar thoughts that hovered about her on the last journey. It is a pity they were refused, for in a tranquil mind thoughts rise up at the close of life hitherto unthinkable; like blessed inward voices, alighting in glory on the summits of the past.

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