"Nature knows no pause in progress and..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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“Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.”
“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”
“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.”
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“As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.”
“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”
“The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”
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“In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.”
“May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.”
“The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning”