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" 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 59
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1853 - 174 pages
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Transactions of the Minnesota State Medical Association ...

Minnesota State Medical Association - 1870 - 598 pages
...still higher task — he is to judge prospectively of the life of the applicant. Goethe says : " Nature defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful and the pure." A few words more. Let us all remember that while we seek fame and fortune as proper objects of desire,...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...sends them equipped. — Emerson. Nature is commanded by obeying her. — Bacon. There is no trilling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe...right, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It denes incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure. — Goethe....
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The Stenographer, Volumes 8-9

1895 - 406 pages
...admonished : " Cast not your pearls before swine." Fortunately, "there is no trifling with nature. * * * It defies incompetency ; but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure." — Goethe. But even true educators are balked when they are haunted by Petroleums "more dumb than...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...We recognize in it an Infinite Power. — W. НюпЪоШ. There is no trifling with nature ; it il we knew what it were. — Suckling. Uncertainty and...possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. — Qoethe. Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals him to the wise, and hides him from the...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 pages
...an Infinite Power.— W. Humboldt. There is no trifling with nature ; it i> always true, grave, anil ȝi0 i0 i0 hut revéale its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure. — Goethe. Nature is the time-vesture...
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