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The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
Age: 67 †
Born: 1767
Born: June 22
Died: 1835
Died: April 8
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Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt
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Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
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Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.
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Results are nothing the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
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Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
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