God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apatheticJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In the family where the father rules secure, there dwells the peace which thou wilt in vain seek for elsewhere in the wide world outside.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah soon his wish will gain Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
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