Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, #500 [tr. Saunders (1892)]

 
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