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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep at night he hunts God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
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Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.
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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
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