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A silent but self-declaring presence comes into knowledge whenever he puts a brake on that downward and earthward movement of daily life which is the common lot--not to stop it altogether but to halt it for short periods or to slow it down so that he is not wholly carried away.
-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 4 : Purify Passions > # 188