Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Your modest savant smiles as ...
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.