Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Man
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Man" (Quotes: Sorted alphabetically by author or source, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 487-93.)
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,