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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
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George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
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Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
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What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
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The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
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Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
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The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
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Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
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It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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