English Prose Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot

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• Every moment is a fresh beginning.
• He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it
• We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are…
• And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
• Do I dare disturb the universe?
• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
• Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.
• Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
• Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not…
• The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not…
• Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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