You have but the wisdom of your temperament, and the wisdom of my temperament is just as unimpeachable as yours.
When one played a strange game, he should let the other fellow play first.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
He ached with life.
There seems to be so much in me I want to say. But it is all so big. I can’t find ways to say what is really in me. Sometimes it seems to me that all the world, all life, everything, had taken up residence inside of me and was clamoring for me to be the spokesman. I feel-oh, I can’t describe it-I feel the bigness of it, but when I speak, I babble like a little child. It is a great task to transmute feeling and sensation into speech, written or spoken, that will, in turn, in him who reads or listens, transmute itself back into the selfsame feeling and sensation. It is a lordly task.
Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations.
He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh.
It was the old tragedy of insularity trying to serve as mentor to the universal.
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