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What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Age: 59 †
Born: 1744
Born: January 1
Died: 1803
Died: December 18
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Nothing in Nature stands still everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.
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The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species
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Calmly take what ill betideth Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
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Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
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Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.
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To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.
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The working of revolutions misleads me no more it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.
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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
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Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
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We live in a world we ourselves create.
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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
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Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.
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A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.
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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
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The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.
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The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
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All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
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