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1 " Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. "
― Margaret Fuller
2 " And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
3 " Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about getting out of its path, not finding the pebble at its center. "
― Jodi Picoult , The Tenth Circle
4 " One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes. "
