Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power. History as a System
“Sometimes we have to wait, for the best.” My Sweet Orange Tree
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. Book IV
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. The Hobbit
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