"To make an epoch in the world,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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“To know where a thing is we must have found it.”
“It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.”
“There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.”