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- We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we…
- 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…
- After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
- There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
- All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
- We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value…
- Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at…
- Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
- The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to…
- A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time…
- Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death…
- Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to…
- The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
- Teach us to care and not to care
- We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
- The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of…
- Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we…
- For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
- Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us…
- Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
- Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears…
- Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.
- Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky
- …Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by…
- Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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