T. S. Eliot Quotes, World Quotes, Sensible Quotes

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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People find a way in which they can say something.

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All cases are unique and very similar to others.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

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The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

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People find a way in which they can say something.

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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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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