"Man usually believes, if only words he..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man usually believes, if only words he hears,That also with them goes material for thinking.[Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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“Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.”
“A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.”