Building Quote by T. S. Eliot

“The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.”

T. S. Eliot

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about…

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all…

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the…

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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,…

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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

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Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in…

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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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The end is in the beginning.

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

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Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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