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Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

Faust

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    Two souls, alas! within my bosom dwell!
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    What we know not is what we need to know,
    And what we know, we might as well let go;
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    Who bore the hard trial
    Of self-denial,
    And, victorious, ascends to the skies whence
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    The thing we use not a dead burden lies,
    But what the moment brings the wise man knows to prize.
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    ysterious Nature may not choose
    To unveil her secrets to the stare of day,
    And what from the mind’s eye she stores away,
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    The godlike essence of our heaven-born powers
    Must yield to strange and still more strange intrusion;
    Soon as the good things of this world are ours,
    We deem our nobler self a vain illusion,
    And heaven-born instincts—very life of life—
    Are strangled in the low terrestrial strife.
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    And what men call the spirit of the age,
    Is but the spirit of the gentlemen
    Who glass their own thoughts in the pliant page,
    And image back themselves.
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    welled with prophetic joy to leave its sphere,
    And live a spirit with spirits, their rightful peer.
    Where art thou, Faust?
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    fear no devil, believe no hell;
    But with my fear all joy is gone,
    All rare conceit of wisdom won;
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    Man still must stumble while he strives.
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