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Quote by Merle Shain

“Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.”

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Merle Shain was a renowned author whose works spanned a variety of fields including history, literature, and philosophy. He lived from 1935 to 1989. more

“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”

Mind Ideas Able Night Knowledge Morning Psychology Fronts Humility Ought Sacred Busy Definitions Cycles Division Cosmology Totality Liver Synthesis Specialization Flukes Archeology

Author:Maureen Duffy

“Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.”

Heart May Appearance Rough Shells Pearls Trust Me Oysters Uncouth

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.”

Children Dream Thee Fancy Favourite Blindness Enchanted

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world.”

World Children Grows Angel Slave Checks Customs Floats Airy

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.”

Heart Our Lives Duty Heroic Loyal

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

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