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Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.
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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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.
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Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
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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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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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Beware of long arguments and long beards.
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The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
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I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
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