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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

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The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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