The prophet Elijah may have...
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The prophet Elijah may have ended his career feeling as though he hadn't come close to finishing his work (the fact that Elisha was waiting in the wings to continue it confirms this).
The English scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, came to the end of his life feeling similarly frustrated. One biographer reported his last words to be these: "I do not know what I may appear to the world. But to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
The English scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, came to the end of his life feeling similarly frustrated. One biographer reported his last words to be these: "I do not know what I may appear to the world. But to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
