"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation."

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Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt