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“Mine would be no lost life if I might wait on him to the worlds end…no one but him should say ‘well done’.”

“I learned that it is better, a thousand fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled than to hold up his head in pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man that he that will be nothing but a doer of his word is sure of his manhood.…”

“Self will come to life even in the slaying of self.”

“Past tears are present strength.”

“Endurance must conquer what force cannot reach.”

“The merest trifle sometimes rivets the attention in the deepest misery. The intellect has so little to do with grief.”

“It I no use trying to account for things in faerie land. One who travels there learns to forget the very idea of doing so and takes everything as it comes. Like a child who being in its chronic condition is surprised by nothing.”

It usually takes me a moment to get invested but since the first time I read a quote of his— I am taken. Not by his specific words but something else quite other. George got it.