Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
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To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen,
Some recommend the bowling green;
Some, hilly walks; all, exercise;
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.Matthew Green
Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giant's shoulders to mount on.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.Ogden Nash
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