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Reason and happiness are like other flowers they wither when plucked.
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
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
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An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
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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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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
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The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
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People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
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To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
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People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
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