“You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”
Conversation
“If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.”
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“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”
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“There is neither religion nor science beyond beauty.”
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“The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.”
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“Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.”
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“I said to Life, ‘I would hear Death speak.’
And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, ‘You hear him now.’”
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“They say to me, ‘Should you know yourself you would know all men.’
And I say, ‘Only when I seek all men shall I know myself.’”
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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
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“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”
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“Even the masks of life are masks of deeper mystery.”
Replying to
“Said a skunk to a tube-rose, ‘See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep.’
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, ‘Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!’”
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“Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.”
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“Your saying to me, ‘I do not understand you,’ is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.”
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“It is wiser for the lame not to break his crutches upon the head of his enemy.”
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“The tribune of humanity is in its silent heart, never its talkative mind.”
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“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold;
And I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
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“The truly free man is he who bears the load of the bond slave patiently.”
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“We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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“What if trouble should be a new window in the Eastern wall of your house?”
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“When you sing, the hungry hears you with his stomach.”
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