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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.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
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And right action is freedom From past and future also.
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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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