We do not make a world of our ...

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Our distrust is very expensive.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.