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Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

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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 dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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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, the work is likely to sprawl.

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Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

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With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

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

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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

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I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

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not fare well, but fare forward

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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