Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
Middlemarch
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If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
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