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118 Polymath Quotes

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Come Great Humility Nearest
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Burden Laugh Myself Self
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We live in the world when we love it.
Live Love World
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Door Errors Out Shut
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Art Call Creative Man
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Between Fills Infinite Music
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Claim Does Freedom Gives
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Earn Given Giving Life
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Art Himself His Man
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Those who own much have much to fear.

Fear Much Own Those
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Facts Many Truth Truth Is
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Busy Doing Doing Good Finds
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Acquaintance Depend Depth Does
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Contain Impulse Law Love
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Earth Effort Endless Heaven
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Else Endless Explain Love
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Beauty Flower Gather Her
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Cross Merely Sea Standing
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Envy Flower Need Numerous
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Grip Hand Keep Safe
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Complete Easy Outspoken Speak
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Another Another Time Born Child
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Beauty Face Her Mirror
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Dance Dew Edges Leaf
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Dangers Facing Fearless Let Us
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Belongs Capacity Create Everything
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Because Come Dawn Death
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Creation Heart Lies Love
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Does Education Existence Give
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Clear Dark Great Great Truth
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

We carry Within us Wonders Seek
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Life Shadow Death Souls
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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Let age Envy Draw wrinkles Cheeks
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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Rough diamonds Mistaken Worthless pebbles
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I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Happiest man Alive Convert poverty Riches
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Death is the cure for all diseases.

Death Cure All diseases
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

The power Weakest man Take away Life
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Men live Reason Sovereignty Humor
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To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Believe Possibilities Faith Philosophy
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Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Life Pure flame Live Invisible sun
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All things Artificial Nature God
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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Reason Rebel Faith Passion
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It is we that are blind, not fortune.
Blind Not fortune
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Man Possession Truth Forced
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Be able Alone Advantage Solitude
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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Be charitable Wealth Covetous
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I make not therefore my head a grave, but a treasure, of knowledge; I intend no Monopoly, but a community, in learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Head Grave Treasure Monopoly
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No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Approach Temple Science Soul
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The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span.

Created world Parenthesis Relating Life span
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This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death

Reasonable moderator Justice Death
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