The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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Alas sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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Patriotism ruins history.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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And future deeds crowded round us As the countless stars in the night.
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