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Miracles happen, not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of nature.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
"The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page."
Do you wise to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
