great-moments-of-life

For what are in reality the things we call __isdom,_ __irtue,_ __eroism,_ __ublime hours,_ and __reat moments of life,_ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; _