“There is a gentleness that no amount of force of any kind can penetrate or conquer.”
CHAPTER XXXI

It is the horizontal view of life, which most men have, that brings them ever face to face with the insuperable, until they weary and lie looking upward with a worm’s-eye view of things, or downward seeing only mud and death and misery. The way over an obstacle is upward. Men forget that birds fly, and that the thought has stronger wings than any eagle.

FRAGMENT FROM THE DIARY OF OLYMPUS,
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