We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.
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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.
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I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them. My faith is in my self.
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The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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