Saturday, November 18, 2017

Great Things and Big Plans

I am done with great things and big plans, 
great institutions and big successes. 
I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces 
that work from individual to individual, 
creeping through the crannies of the world 
like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, 
yet which, given time, will rend 
the hardest monuments of human pride.

--William James


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