“Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 345
“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.”
Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
Context: Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.
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