While we go with the stream, we are unconscious of its rapid course; but when we begin to stem it ever so little, it makes itself felt.

François Fénelon (1651-1715) French theologian, poet, writer [François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon]
Letter to the Comtesse de Gramont (21 Mar 1690)
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