"A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground."
— Fate

January 1, 1970

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, translation of Friedrich von Logau, Sinnegedichte. Same idea in Luther, Table Talk. Hazlitt's translation. (1848).