"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."

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The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson