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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

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And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

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Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

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Home is where one starts from.

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Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

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The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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