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The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme.... →
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
A secret is a weapon and a friend.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is... →
Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest... →
To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all... →
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