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“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.”

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet born on April 13, 1939, and passed away on August 30, 2013. He is renowned for his profound humanistic concerns and exquisite poetic skills, being one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. more

“Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.”

Ifs Littles Universe Knowing Perspective Fundamentals Practicals Guidance Physicist Imports

Book:The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

Source: The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

“Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.”

Writing Names Goal Pleasure Written Worthy Noble

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.”

Source: The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842

“What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?”

Hard Remains Curious Engagement Panic Siege

Book:Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.”

Next Steps Evolution Survival Wisest Next Steps

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.”

Men Way Done Light Might Strong Force Stars Fire Wind Cost Elements Labor Instance Gravity Steam Magnet Borrowing Chores Wagons Galvanism

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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