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• The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the… — Seneca the Younger
• It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry
• This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes;… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
• What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
• [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. — Joseph Hall
• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she… — Gertrude Stein
• Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in… — Henry Miller
• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize… — Henry Miller
• You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes… — Catherynne M. Valente
• It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry
• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize… — Henry Miller
• There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we,… — Unknown Author

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