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Prayer is not a substitute for work it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
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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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
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Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
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I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
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