How can we learn to know ourselves? By reflection, never, but by our actions. Attempt to do your duty, and you will immediately find what is in you.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Showing posts with label self-knowledge. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
Post #2088
In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Monday, February 29, 2016
Post #2021
Only in complicated critical cases do men find out what is within them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friday, July 17, 2015
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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