T. S. Eliot Quotes, Girl Quotes, Sea Quotes

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

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Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

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When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

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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.

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We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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