"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
"The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of comm...
"If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
"You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its broth...



