Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.
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