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His Own Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the…
- What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of…
- The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
- And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
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- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr