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Again we go West
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let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once
out come all his roughness, all his dullness, all his incapability;
shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause:
but out comes the whole majesty of him also
and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am? —
If I were a Shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part, —
Yet what I can I give Him, —
Give my heart.
philosophy, as I have understood it hitherto, is a voluntary retirement into regions of ice and mountain-peaks
man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven
aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment
few people are likely to have read my book from beginning to end. They don’t have to,
and I hope the chancellor didn’t.
a nation may beget its own barbarian invaders
the ceaseless unmasking of others led the unmasker into self-delusion
victory has defeated you
Everywhere we see that men do not go mad by dreaming.
do not seek love; merely seek to find all the barriers you have built within yourself against it
in words that arise amid the crashing fall of idols
loans without col­lateral are constantly being drawn on the future
no matter how much I wanted the Athenians to win in Sicily, they never seemed to be able to
for a thousand years in your sight is as yesterday when it is gone