Tuesday March 20th 2012

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Thought for the Day

“Haste not! Rest not! Calmly wait;
Meekly bear the storms of fate!
Duty be thy polar guide.
Do the right what’er betide!

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
(1749-1832)



*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Born: 28 August 1749
Died: 22 March 1832

A German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long poem of modern European literature. His other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.

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