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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.

— Johann Gottfried Herder

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The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

"Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much?"
By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!

Each strives with each, as each is pressed upon; each must provide for his own subsistence, and defend his own life.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

Übers Erkennen und Empfinden in der menschlichen Seele (1774)

Nowhere on earth does the rose of happiness blossom without thorns; but what bursts forth out of these thorns is everywhere and in various guises the transient, yet beautiful rose of man's joy in living.

Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (1784)

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