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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Maxims of Goethe 15


From time to time I meet with a youth in whom I can wish for no alteration or improvement, only I am sorry to see how often his nature makes him quite ready to swim with the stream of the time; and it is on this that I would always insist, that man in his fragile boat has the rudder placed in his hand, just that he may not be at the mercy of the waves, but follow the direction of his own insight. 

IMAGE: Winslow Homer, Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) (1876) 



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