"Yet here I stand poor fool what..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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“What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.”
“We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.”
“As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.”
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“I'm just a simple country girl.”
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“The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.”
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“Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.”
“Truth was always but the daughter of time.”
“Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.”