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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.Albert Schweitzer
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He that high growth on cedars did bestow, / Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 8106. Printed attribution: R. Southwell. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 28305. Printed attribution: Ecclus. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 265. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_265