We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.
(Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1922)
T. E. Lawrence
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed... I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands... and wrote my will across the sky in stars.
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