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Reason has done, what it can do, when it discovers and draws up the law; to execute this law is reserved for him who feels the obligation of it, and has the due firmness of purpose.
Reason has done, what it can do, when it discovers and draws up the law; to execute this law is reserved for him who feels the obligation of it, and has the due firmness of purpose.
Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
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- Schiller
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- Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
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