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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: world? 'Tis doubt renders thee insensible, not happiness. The justice of the
king, in which through life thou hast confided, the friendship of the
Regent, which, thou mayst confess it, was akin to love,--have these
suddenly vanished, like a meteor of the night, and left thee alone upon thy
gloomy path? Will not Orange, at the head of thy friends, contrive some
daring scheme? Will not the people assemble, and with gathering might,
attempt the rescue of their faithful friend?
Ye walls, which thus gird me round, separate me not from the well-
intentioned zeal of so many kindly souls. And may the courage with which
my glance was wont to inspire them, now return again from their hearts to
mine. Yes! they assemble in thousands! they come! they stand beside me!
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