<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460935" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>from Goethe on Boldness (for poets and others</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many noble schemes from goodwill's heart, <br>how many splendid plans and fine ideas<br>have foundered, lost their glorious craft and art<br>through hesitancy born of baseless fears? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We do not see the moment as divine, <br>thinking that those plans are somehow 'ours'; <br>forgetting, too, that Providence sublime<br>yields timeless good through time in human hours: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the task begun, this heavenly Providence<br>begins to move; bestows her love's support<br>with means, events, beyond coincidence; <br>assistance past all dreams of human thought -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">be bold! and trust in Providence above: <br>she brings to earth God's magic; power; and love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460935" data-title="From Goethe on Boldness (for poets and others de Michael Shepherd" data-description="How many noble schemes from goodwill's heart, how many splendid plans and fine ideas have foundered, lost their glorious craft and art through hesitancy born of baseless fears? We do not see the moment as divine, thinking that those plans are ..."></div> </div> </div>

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