#him

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#further #going #himself #how #incapable

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great #greatness #himself #itself #know

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#got #himself #his #kids #man

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. ↗

— Alan Paton

#beloved country #child #country #cry #deeply

I'm probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I'd still love him, I realized that's how he sees me or at least how he should! ↗

— Danica Patrick

#around #could #definitely #got #him

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#across #came #car #conversation #cup

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. ↗

— Jean Paul

#corner #every #every man #follows #foul

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#between #brother #complete #him #i