T. S. Eliot Quotes, Humility Quotes, Men Quotes

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

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

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In the mountains, there you feel free.

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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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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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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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War among men defiles this world.

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

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There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

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

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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