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“If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.” quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt — Download Open image

“If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.”

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to…

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