To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the …

William James
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To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is. ✨ Dr. William James (2013). The William James Reader, p.336, Simon and Schuster
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