T. S. Eliot Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Humility Quotes

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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Distracted from distraction by distraction

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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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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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At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

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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 all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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Humankind cannot stand reality.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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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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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

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Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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There will be time to murder and create.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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