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T S Eliot Inspirational Quotes (307)

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep at night he hunts God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an objective correlative in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
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and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.
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So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG
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To make an end is to make a beginning.
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My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
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Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think whatever you want, be sure that is what you want whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
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Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
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