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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3638/">Quotes by <em>Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."

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"Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form."

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"Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence."

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"Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all."

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"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."

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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

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"Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household."

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"However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue."

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"If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter."

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"Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us."

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