Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us. -Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

 

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.


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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

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