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Quotation from Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A good man, through obscurest aspiration, Has still an instinct of the one true way.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (spoken by The Lord)

Faust, Part One, Prologue in Heaven (German ll. 328-329), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870)

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The Lord predicts that Mephistopheles will have to admit defeat, setting the terms on which Faust's whole story is read.

Citation: "A good man, through obscurest aspiration, Has still an instinct of the one true way." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Prologue in Heaven (German ll. 328-329), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870). (id goethe-faust-part-one-q2)

Portrait: Goethe (Stieler 1828), Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain.

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