“There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him.”

As quoted in Henry Ward Beecher: His Life and Work (1887) by J.T. Lloyd, p. 261 http://books.google.com/books?id=MV5DAAAAYAAJ
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