To withdraw gracefully from the public stage and by securing a season of virtuous repose after a life of action – to place a kind of sacred interval between this world and the next, is a piece of practical wisdom which I fear is in few hands.
Understand -- through the stillness, Act -- out of the stillness, Conquer -- in the stillness.
In order for the eye to perceive color, it must divest itself of all colors.
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