There is no trifling with nature; it is always tme, grave, and severe; it is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure. Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art - Page 59by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 174 pagesFull view - About this book
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