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#1

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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#2

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#3

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#4

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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#5

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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#6

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

tags: laws, people

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#7

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#8

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: beginning, plato, republic

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#9

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source

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#10

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#11

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#12

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

tags: humor, poetry, religion

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#13

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

tags: poetry, science, stars

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#14

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry

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#15

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

tags: poetry

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#16

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry

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#17

“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
― Plato

tags: writing

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#18

“The first and best victory is to conquer self”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#19

“True friendship can exist only between equals.”
― Plato

tags: equals, friendship

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#20

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

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#21

“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: elegance, philosophy, simplicity

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#22

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: philosophy

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#23

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

tags: philosophy

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#24

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb

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#25

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#26

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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#27

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, pain

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#28

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

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#29

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: depression, pain

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#30

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

tags: aslan, narnia

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