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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.






True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.






The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.






Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.






For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.






Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.






The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.






Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.






Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.






We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.






The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.






Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.






Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.






Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.






Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.






Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.






Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.






The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.






Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.






The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.






Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.






But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.






Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.






Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.






The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.






What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.






Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.






It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.






Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.






It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.










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