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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
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Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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Columbus gave the world another world.
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
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Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
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The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
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What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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