Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

  

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  • Reverence
  • Reserve
  • Fathom