Small Relief

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or relief:

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)