The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise Pascal Also found in:
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty, inaccuracy of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
Crimes sometimes shock us too much, vices almost always too little.
Augustus Hare Also found in:
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass
The last act is bloody however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head and that is the end forever.
Blaise Pascal
