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Bekker is silent in seven languages. [Ger., Bekker schweigt in sieben Sprachen.] - see "Letter of Zelter" to Goethe [Silence] Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man. - [Virtue] Women are certainly more happy in this than we men: their employments occupy a smaller portion of their thoughts, and the earnest longing of the heart, the beautiful inner life of the fancy, always commands the greater part. - [Work]
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