“ Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment? ”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). copy citation
Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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Source | The Sorrows of Young Werther |
Topic | power vanity contentment self-confidence |
Date | 1774 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by R. D. Boylan |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2527/2527-h/2527-h.htm |