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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. it only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
-Blaise Pascal
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Those Great Efforts Of Intellect, Upon Which

Blaise Pascal
Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. it only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
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