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Must It Ever Be Thus-that The Source Of Our Happiness Must Also Be The Fountain Of Our Misery? The Full And Ardent Sentiment Which Animated My Heart With The Love Of Nature, Overwhelming Me With A Torrent Of Delight, And Which Brought All Paradise Before Me, Has Now Become An Insupportable Torment, A Demon Which Perpetually Pursues And Harrasses Me.

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Must It Ever Be

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Must It Ever Be Thus-that The Source Of Our Happiness Must Also Be The Fountain Of Our Misery? The Full And Ardent Sentiment Which Animated My Heart With The Love Of Nature, Overwhelming Me With A Torrent Of Delight, And Which Brought All Paradise Before Me, Has Now Become An Insupportable Torment, A Demon Which Perpetually Pursues And Harrasses Me.

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A Good Man, Through Obscurest Aspirations Has Still An Instinct Of The One True Way.

Everything Is Both Simpler Than We Can Imagine And More Entangled Than We Can Conceive.

To Have Seen Italy Without Having Seen Sicily Is To Not Have Seen Italy At All, For Sicily Is The Clue To Everything.

Happy Contractedness Of Youth, Nay, Of Mankind In General, That They Think Neither Of The High Nor The Deep, Of The True Nor The False, But Only Of What Is Suited To Their Own Conceptions.

If You Call A Thing Bad You Do Little, If You Call A Thing Good You Do Much

The World Is For Thousands A Freak Show; The Images Flicker Past And Vanish; The Impressions Remain Flat And Unconnected In The Soul. Thus They Are Easily Led By The Opinions Of Others, Are Content To Let Their Impressions Be Shuffled And Rearranged And Evaluated Differently.

The Flowers Of Life Are But Illusions. How Many Fade Away And Leave No Trace.

Yet He Who Grasps The Moment's Gift, He Is The Proper Man.

Love Grants In A Moment What Toil Can Hardly Achieve In An Age. [ger., In Einem Augenblick Gewahrt Die Liebe Was Muhe Kaum In Langer Zeit Erreicht.]

Nothing Will Change The Fact That I Cannot Produce The Least Thing Without Absolute Solitude.

Oh How Sweet It Is To Hear One's Own Convictions From Another's Lips.

The Misfortune In The State Is, That Nobody Can Enjoy Life In Peace, But That Everybody Must Govern; And In Art, That Nobody Will Enjoy What Has Been Produced, But That Every One Wants To Reproduce On His Own Account.

The Flowers Are Full Of Honey, But Only The Bee Finds Out The Sweetness.

Great Endowments Often Announce Themselves In Youth In The Form Of Singularity And Awkwardness.

I Always Seek The Good That Is In People And Leave The Bad To Him Who Made Mankind And Knows How To Round Off The Corners.

One Errs As Long As One Strives.

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Nature! We Live In Her Midst And Know Her Not. She Is Incessantly Speaking To Us, But Betrays Not Her Secret. We Constantly Act Upon Her, And Yet Have No Power Over Her. Variant: Nature! We Are Surrounded And Embraced By Her: Powerless To Separate Ourselves From Her, And Powerless To Penetrate Beyond Her.

A Man Would Create Another Man If One Did Not Already Exist, But A Woman Might Live An Eternity Without Even Thinking Of Reproducing Her Own Sex.

The Moment One Definitely Commits Oneself, Then Providence Moves, Too. All Sorts Of Things Occur To Help One That Would Never Have Otherwise Occurred...unforeseen Incidents And Meetings And Material Assistance, Which No Man Could Have Dreamed Would Have Come His Way.

You Shall Abstain, Shall Abstain. That Is The Eternal Song.

And I Like Those Authors Best Whose Scenes Describe My Own Situation In Life-- And The Friends Who Are About Me Whose Stories Touch Me With Interest, From Resembling My Own Homely Existence.

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It Is Equally A Mistake To Hold One's Self Too High, Or To Rate One's Self Too Cheap.

The World Cannot Do Without Great Men, But Great Men Are Very Troublesome To The World.

Since Time Is Not A Person We Can Overtake When He Is Gone, Let Us Honor Him With Mirth And Cheerfulness Of Heart While He Is Passing.

To Become Aware In Time When Young Of The Advantages Of Age; To Maintain The Advantages Of Youth In Old Age: Both Are Pure Fortune.

Let Everyone Sweep In Front Of His Own Door, And The Whole World Will Be Clean.

Ye Great Teachers: Listen To What You Say!

Not The Maker Of Plans And Promises, But Rather The One Who Offers Faithful Service In Small Matters. This Is The Person Who Is Most Likely To Achieve What Is Good And Lasting.

The Rabble Also Vent Their Rage In Words. [ger., Es Macht Das Volk Sich Auch Mit Worten Lust.]

How To Please The Public - That's The Test, But Nowadays I Find I'm In A Fix; I Know They're Not Accustomed To The Best, But They've All Read So Much They Know The Tricks. How Can We Give Then Something Fresh And New That's Serious, But Entertaining Too?

Beauty Is Everywhere A Welcome Guest.

Men's Prejudices Rest Upon Their Character For The Time Being And Cannot Be Overcome, As Being Part And Parcel Of Themselves. Neither Evidence Nor Common Sense Nor Reason Has The Slightest Influence Upon Them.

Well-mannered Children Could Be Conceived If The Parents Were Well-mannered.

There Is No Patriotic Art.

To Me The External Existence Of My Soul Is Proved From My Idea Of Activity. If I Work Incessantly Until My Death, Nature Will Give Me Another Form Of Existence When The Present Can No Longer Sustain My Spirit.

Objects In Pictures Should So Be Arranged As By Their Very Position To Tell Their Own Story.

Whoever Strikes At Marriage Either By Word Or Act Undermines The Foundation Of All Moral Society.

I Hate All Explanations; They Who Make Them Deceive Either Themselves Or The Other Party,-generally Both.

For That Is Love's Nature That It Lays Claim To Exclusive Right And That All Other Claims Are Nil.

Everything In The World May Be Endured Except Continual Prosperity.

The People Who Are Absent Are The Ideal; Those Who Are Present Seem To Be Quite Commonplace.

The Greatest Thing In This World Is Not So Much Where We Stand As In What Direction We Are Moving.

The Unnatural, That Too Is Natural.

It Is One Of Heaven's Best Gifts To Hold Such A Dear Creature In One's Arms.

There Are Few Who Have At Once Thought And Capacity For Action. Thought Expands, But Lames; Action Animates, But Narrows.

I Am Proud Of My Heart Alone, It Is The Sole Source Of Everything, All Our Strenght, Happiness & Misery. All The Knowledge I Possess Everyone Else Can Acquire, But My Heart Is All My Own

Give Me The Benefit Of Your Convictions, If You Have Any; But Keep Your Doubts To Yourself, For I Have Enough Of My Own.

I Believe In God And In Nature And In The Triumph Of Good Over Evil.

When Nature Begins To Reveal Her Open Secret To A Man, He Feels An Irresistible Longing For Her Worthiest Interpreter, Art.

Commonplaceness, The Surrender To The Average, That Good Which Is Not Bad But Still The Enemy Of The Best - That Is Our Besetting Danger.

How Often Do I Lull My Seething Blood To Rest, For You Have Never Seen Anything So Unsteady, So Uncertain, As This Heart.

That We Understand Something Perfectly, That We Accomplish Something Better Than Anyone Else Around Us, That Is What Matters.

One Would Give Generous Alms If One Had The Eyes To See The Beauty Of A Cupped Receiving Hand.

Lamps Make Oil-spots And Candles Need Snuffing; It Is Only The Light Of Heaven That Shines Pure And Leaves No Stain.

Art Is Constitutive-the Artist Determines Beauty. He Does Not Take It Over.

Music, In The Best Sense, Does Not Require Novelty; Nay, The Older It Is, And The More We Are Accustomed To It, The Greater Its Effect.

I Consider Him Of No Account Who Esteems Himself Just As The Popular Breath May Chance To Raise Him.

I've Often Heard It Said A Preacher Might Learn With A Comedian For A Teacher.

I Curse All Negative Purism That Tells Me Not To Use A Word From Another Language That Either Expresses Something That My Own Language Cannot Or Does That In A More Delicate Manner.

With Knowledge Grows Doubt.

The Bible Grows More Beautiful, As We Grow In Our Understanding Of It.

Great Thoughts And A Pure Heart, That Is What We Should Ask From God.

Nothing Is More Disgusting Than The Majority: Because It Consists Of A Few Powerful Predecessors, Of Rogues Who Adapt Themselves, Of Weak Who Assimilate Themselves, And The Masses Who Imitate Without Knowing At All What They Want.

The Mark Of Highest Originality Lies In The Ability To Develop A Familiar Idea So Fruitfully That It Would Seem No One Else Would Ever Have Discovered So Much To Be Hidden In It.

We Can Offer Up Much In The Large, But To Make Sacrifices In Little Things Is What We Are Seldom Equal To.

It Is Said, That No One Is A Hero To Their Butler. The Reason Is, That It Requires A Hero To Recognize A Hero. The Butler, However, Will Probably Know Well How To Estimate His Equals.

I Respect The Man Who Knows Distinctly What He Wants.

We Cannot And Must Not Get Rid Of Nor Deny Our Characteristics. But We Can Give Them Shape And Direction.

All Understanding Begins In Wonder!

He Is The Happiest Man Who Can See The Connection Between The End And The Beginning Of Life.

A Leaf That Is Destined To Grow Large Is Full Of Grooves And Wrinkles At The Start. Now If One Has No Patience And Wants It Smooth Offhand Like A Willow Leaf, There Is Trouble Ahead.

One Alone Does Not Help, But Rather He Who Unites With Many At The Right Moment.

It Is In Vain That A Man Of Sound Mind And Cool Temper Understands The Condition Of Such A Wretched Being... He Can No More Communicate His Own Wisdom To Him Than A Healthy Man Can Instil His Strength Into The Invalid By Whose Bedside He Is Seated.

When Toward The Devil's Hose We Tread, Woman's A Thousand Steps Behind. [ger., Denn Geht Es Zu Des Bosen Haus Das Weib Hat Tausend Schritt Voraus.]

The Most Fortunate Of Men, Be He A King Or Commoner, Is He Whose Welfare Is Assured In His Own Home.

Life Is But A Preparation For What There Is To Come.

Enjoy What You Can, Endure What You Must.

The Most Congenial Social Occasions Are Those Ruled By Cheerful Deference Of Each For All.

It Is A Misfortune To Pass At Once From Observation To Conclusion, And To Regard Both As Of Equal Value; But It Befalls Many A Student.

My Poor Head Is In Such A Whirl, My Mind Is All In Bits.

You Can’t, If You Can’t Feel It, If It Never Rises From The Soul, And Sways The Heart Of Every Single Hearer, With Deepest Power, In Simple Ways. You’ll Sit Forever, Gluing Things Together, Cooking Up A Stew From Other’s Scraps, Blowing On A Miserable Fire, Made From Your Heap Of Dying Ash. Let Apes And Children Praise Your Art, If Their Admiration’s To Your Taste, But You’ll Never Speak From Heart To Heart, Unless It Rises Up From Your Heart’s Space.

If Youth Is A Fault, It Is One That One Gets Rid Of Soon Enough.

One Is Never Satisfied With The Portrait Of A Person That One Knows.

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.

If A Good Person Does You Wrong, Act As Though You Had Not Noticed It. If We Practice And Eye For An Eye And A Tooth For A Tooth, Soon The Wholeworld Will Be Blind And Toothless.

A Rainbow Which Lasts For A Quarter Of An Hour Is Looked At No Longer.

When I Err Every One Can See It, But Not When I Lie. [ger., Wenn Ich Irre Kann Es Jeder Bemerken; Wenn Ich Luge, Nicht.]

Rejoice That You Have Still Have A Long Time To Live, Before The Thought Comes To You That There Is Nothing More In The World To See.

The Day Is Committed To Error And Floundering; Success And Achievement Are Matters Of Long Range.

Yet Through Delivery Orators Succeed, I Feel That I Am Far Behind Indeed. [ger., Allein Der Vortrag Macht Des Redners Gluck, Ich Fuhl Es Wohl Noch Bin Ich Weit Zuruck.]

Nothing Is More Dangerous Than Solitude.

If You Treat Men The Way They Are You Never Improve Them. If You Treat Them The Way You Want Them To Be, You Do.

Someone Criticized An Elderly Man For Wooing Young Women. He Replied That That Was The Only Way To Rejuvenation, Which Was, Afterall, Everybody's Wish.

Perseverance Is A Silent Power That Grows Irresistibly Greater With Time.

Certain Flaws Are Necessary For The Whole. It Would Seem Strange If Old Friends Lacked Certain Quirks.

To Live Within Limits. To Want One Thing. Or A Few Things Very Much And Love Them Dearly. Cling To Them, Survey Them From Every Angle. Become One With Them - That Is What Makes The Poet, The Artist, The Human Being.

Then To The Depths! - I Could As Well Say Height: It's All The Same.

Humor Is One Of The Elements Of Genius--admirable As An Adjunct; But As Soon As It Becomes Dominant, Only A Surrogate For Genius.

There Is No Surer Method Of Evading The World Than By Following Art, And No Surer Method Of Linking Oneself To It Than By Art.

Life Belongs To The Living, And He Who Lives Must Be Prepared For Changes.

Alas! How Much There Is In Education, And In Our Social Institutions, To Prepare Us And Our Children For Insanity.

The Miller Believes That All The Wheat Grows So That His Mill Keeps Running.

The Important Thing Is Not To Know More Than All Men, But To Know More At Each Moment Than Any Particular Man.

Treat A Person As They Are, They Will Remain So. Treat A Person The Way That Person Can Be And Is Capable Of Being And That Person Will Become As He Or She Can Be And Should Be.

Girls We Love For What They Are; Young Men For What They Promise To Be.

The Present Is A Powerful Deity. [ger., Die Gegenwart Ist Eine Machtige Gottin.]

I Let Everyone Follow His Own Bent, That I May Be Free To Follow Mine.

A Person Is Never Happy Till Their Vague Strivings Has Itself Marked Out Its Proper Limitations.

The Worst Is That The Very Hardest Thinking Will Not Bring Thoughts. They Must Come Like Good Children Of God And Cry, "here We Are." You Expend Effort And Energy Thinking Hard. Then, After You Have Given Up, They Come Sauntering In With Their Hands In Their Pockets. If The Effort Had Not Been Made To Open The Door, However, Who Knows When They Could Have Come.

It Is Natural To Man To Regard Himself As The Final Cause Of Creation.

The Spirit From Which We Act Is The Principal Matter.

Gifts Come From Above In Their Own Peculiar Forms.

It Is Quite Beyond Me How Anyone Can Believe God Speaks To Us In Books And Stories. If The World Does Not Directly Reveal To Us Our Relationship To It, If Our Hearts Fail To Tell Us What We Owe Ourselves And Others, We Shall Assuredly Not Learn It From Books, Which Are At Best Designed But To Give Names To Our Errors.

Fresh Activity Is The Only Means Of Overcoming Adversity.

No Man Learns To Know His Inmost Nature By Introspection, For He Rates Himself Sometimes Too Low, And Often Too High, By His Own Measurement. Man Knows Himself Only By Comparing Himself With Other Men; It Is Life That Touches His Genuine Worth.

If Ever The Divine Appeared On Earth, It Was In The Person Of Christ.

The Mortal Race Is Far Too Weak Not To Grow Dizzy On Unwonted Brights. [ger., Das Sterbliche Geschlecht Ist Viel Zu Schwach In Ungewohnter Hohe Nicht Zu Schwindeln.]

People Should Talk Less And Draw More. Personally, I Would Like To Renounce Speech Altogether And, Like Organic Nature, Communicate Everything I Have To Say Visually.

The Trouble Is Small, The Fun Is Great. [ger., Die Muh'ist Klein, Der Spass Ist Gross.]

One Can't Dull A Project Better Than By Discussing It Repeatedly.

People Are Always Talking About Originality, But What Do They Mean? As Soon As We Are Born, The World Begins To Work Upon Us, And This Goes On To The End.

This Is What They All Come To Who Exclusively Harp On Experience. They Do Not Stop To Consider That Experience Is Only One Half Of Experience.

Every Individual Who Is Not Creative Has A Negative, Narrow, Exclusive Taste And Succeeds In Depriving Creative Being Of Its Energy And Life.

Our Foibles Are Really What Make Us Lovable.

The Summit Charms Us, The Steps To It Do Not; With The Heights Before Our Eyes, We Like To Linger In The Plain. It Is Only A Part Of Art That Can Be Taught; But The Artist Needs The Whole. He Who Is Only Half Instructed Speaks Much And Is Always Wrong; Who Knows It Wholly Is Content With Acting And Speaks Seldom Or Late.

It Is In The Half Fools And The Half Wise That The Greatest Danger Lies.

Live Dangerously And You Live Right.

Any Trifle Is Enough To Entertain Two Lovers.

Human Life-everybody Lives It, But Only To A Few Is It Known.

Those Who Have No Hope For A Future Life Are Already Dead For The Present One.

The Person Of Analytic Or Critical Intellect Finds Something Ridiculous In Everything. The Person Of Synthetic Or Constructive Intellect, In Almost Nothing.

I Hate All Bungling As I Do Sin, But Particularly Bungling In Politics, Which Leads To The Misery And Ruin Of Many Thousands And Millions Of People.

Power Is Neither Male Nor Female.

Great Necessity Elevates Man, Petty Necessity Casts Him Down

Whoso Shrinks From Ideas Ends By Having Nothing But Sensations.

Accepting Good Advice Means Nothing Other Than To Strengthen One's Own Ability.

Time Does Not Relinquish Its Rights, Either Over Human Beings Or Over Mountains.

Secrecy Has Many Advantages, For When You Tell Someone The Purpose Of Any Object Right Away, They Often Think There Is Nothing To It.

One Says A Lot In Vain, Refusing; The Other Mainly Hears The "no."

Take Life Too Seriously, And What Is It Worth? If The Morning Wake Us To No New Joys, If The Evening Bring Us Not The Hope Of New Pleasure, Is It Worthwhile To Dress And Undress?

Mastery Passes Often For Egotism.

Children, Like Dogs, Have So Sharp And Fine A Scent That They Detect And Hunt Out Everything--the Bad Before All The Rest. They Also Know Well Enough How This Or That Friend Stands With Their Parents; And As They Practice No Dissimulation Whatever, They Serve As Excellent Barometers By Which To Observe The Degree Of Favor Or Disfavor At Which We Stand With Their Parents.

Children Can Scarcely Be Fashioned To Meet With Our Likes And Our Purpose. Just As God Did Us Give Them, So Must We Hold Them And Love Them, Nurture And Teach Them To Fullness And Leave Them To Be What They Are.

Just Trust Yourself And You'll Learn The Art Of Living.

Make The Most Of Time, It Flies Away So Fast; Yet Method Will Teach You To Win Time.

We're Only Really Thinking When We Can't Think Out Fully What We Are Really Thinking About!

The Passions Are Like Those Demons With Which Afrasahiab Sailed Down The Orus. Our Only Safety Consists In Keeping Them Asleep. If They We Are Lost.

By The Artist's Seizing Any One Object From Nature, That Object No Longer Is Part Of Nature. One Can Go So Far As To Say That Theartist Creates The Object In That Very Moment By Emphasizing Its Significant, Characteristic, And Interesting Aspects Or, Rather, By Adding The Higher Values.

Noble Be Man, Helpful And Good!

If We Are Out Of Synch With Ourselves, Everything Is Out Of Synch For Us.

Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine.

Life Is Too Short

Voluntary Dependence Is The Wonderful Form Of Existence, And How Could That Be Possible Without Love?

Does Not Man Lack The Force At The Very Point Where He Needs It Most? And When He Soars Upward In Joy, Or Sinks Down In Suffering, Is Not Checked In Both, Is He Not Returned Again To The Dull, Cold Sphere Of Awareness, Just When He Was Longing To Lose Himself In The Fullness Of The Infinite.

By Seeking And Blundering We Learn.

Superstition Is Rooted In A Much Deeper And More Sensitive Layer Of The Psyche Than Skepticism.

Every Author In Some Way Portrays Himself In His Works, Even If It Be Against His Will.

Fret Not Over The Irretrievable, But Ever Act As If Thy Life Were Just Begun.

Yet Here I Stand Poor Fool What More, Not One Wit Wiser Than Before.

How Can One Learn To Know Oneself? Never By Introspection, Rather By Action.

Knowing Oneself

For To Give Is The Business Of The Rich. [lat., Denn Geben Ist Sache Des Reichen.]

The New Vulcanism Is Really A Daring Attempt To Connect The Present, Incomprehensible World To A Past, Unknown One.

What Must The English And French Think Of The Language Of Our Philosophers When We Germans Do Not Understand It Ourselves?

So, Lively Brisk Old Fellow, Don't Let Age Get You Down. White Hairs Or Not, You Can Still Be A Lover.

Animals, We Have Been Told, Are Taught By Their Organs. Yes, I Would Add, And So Are Men, But Men Have This Further Advantage That They Can Also Teach Their Organs In Return.

Each Ten Years Of A Man's Life Has Its Own Fortunes, Its Own Hopes, Its Own Desires.

Certain Books Seem To Be Written, Not That We Might Learn From Them, But In Order That We Might See How Much The Author Knows.

When You Take A Man As He Is, You Make Him Worse. When You Take A Man As He Can Be, You Make Him Better.

He Who Does Not Think Much Of Himself Is Much More Esteemed Than He Imagines.

Certain Defects Are Necessary For The Existence Of Individuality.

Willing Is Not Enough, We Must Do.

But The Valid Issue Is The Extent To Which Man Knows How To Form And Master The Material At His Command.

He Is A Man Whom It Is Impossible To Please, Because He Is Never Pleased With Himself.

There Are People Who Make No Mistakes Because They Never Wish To Do Anything Worth Doing.

The Brilliant Passes, Like The Dew At Morn; The True Endures, For Ages Yet Unborn.

Rest Not. Life Is Sweeping By; Go And Dare Before You Die. Something Mighty And Sublime, Leave Behind To Conquer Time.

Energy Will Do Anything That Can Be Done In The World; And No Talents, No Circumstances, No Opportunities Will Make A Two-legged Animal A Man Without It.

Happiness Is A Ball After Which We Run Wherever It Rolls, And We Push It With Our Feet When It Stops.

If Nature Is Your Teacher, Your Soul Will Awaken.

If You Wish To Advance Into The Infinite, Explore The Finite In All Directions.

If You've Never Eaten While Crying You Don T Know What Life Tastes Like.

I Am Certain That I Have Been Here As I Am Now A Thousand Times Before, And I Hope To Return A Thousand Times.

It Is The Great Triumph Of Genius To Make The Common Appear Novel.

These Auspicious Aspects, Which The Astrologers Subsequently Interpreted For Me, May Have Been The Causes Of My Preservation.

We Have Time Enough If We But Use It Aright

To The World You Might Be One Person, But To One Person, You Might Be The World. Kindness Is The Golden Chain By Which Our World Is Bound Together.

What People Call The Spirit Of The Times Is Mostly Their Own Spirit In Which The Times Mirror Themselves.

I Have Come To The Frightening Conclusion That I Am The Decisive Element. It Is My Personal Approach That Creates The Climate. It Is My Daily Mood That Makes The Weather....in All Situations, It Is My Response That Decides Whether A Crisis Is Escalated Or De-escalated, And A Person Is Humanized Or Is Dehumanized.

Be Above It! Make The World Serve Your Purpose, But Do Not Serve It.

When Married One Has To Get Into An Argument Once In A While Since In This Way One Learns About The Other.

Enthusiasm Is Of The Greatest Value, So Long As We Are Not Carried Away By It.

One's Roused By This, Another Finds That Fit: Each Loves The Play For What He Brings To It.

To Appreciate The Noble Is A Gain Which Can Never Be Torn From Us.

Great Possessions And Great Want Of Them Are Both Strong Temptations.

Man Must Strive, And Striving He Must Err.

One Mind Is Enough For A Thousand Hands.

Oh, Happy He Who Still Hopes He Can Emerge From Error's Boundless Sea! - Faust.

We Who Didn't Inherit Political Power Nor Are Made To Acquire Riches Like Nothing Better Than That Which Expands And Solidifies The Power Of The Spirit.

Those Who Make Use Of Devotion As A Means And End Generally Are Hypocrites.

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