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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
— 1860 Letter to Charles Kingsley.
As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, " Father, I am falling! " and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.
theodore l. cuyler— P. 89. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
We are two abysses — a well staring at the sky.
fernando pessoa— Original: Somos dois abismos — um poço fitando o céu.
— Ibid., p. 48
We are two abysses a well staring at the sky.
— Original: Somos dois abismos — um poço fitando o céu.
— Ibid., p. 48
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, letter to Charles Kingsley (September 23, 1860); reported in Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1900, reprinted 1979), vol. 1, p. 235.
Give with a heart glowing with generous sentiments; give as the fountain gives out its waters from its own swelling depths; give as the air gives its vital breezes, unrestrained and free; give as the sun gives out its light, from the infinite abysses of its own nature.
— Augustine of Hippo, p. 25. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
