“Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.”
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“Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well,
He hardly will be caught a second time.”
― Faust: Part 1
He hardly will be caught a second time.”
― Faust: Part 1
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ”
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