Nations touch at their summits.
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No. IV, The House of Lords, p.120Walter Bagehot
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...my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.
Andre Dubus
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You cannot always stay on the summits. You have to come down again . . .
Rene Daumal
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Who would attain to summits still and fair,
Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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