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“No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what I mean. You cannot see in another man any more than you have in yourself. Your own level strictly determines the extent to which he comes within your understanding. If your intelligence is unawakened, mental qualities in another, even though they be of the highest kind, will have no effect on you at all… his higher mental qualities will no more exist for you than colors exist for those who cannot see.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
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“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder
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“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.”

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Book:Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
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“An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.”

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Author:Compton Gage
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“Under the root *( of the Ash Yggdrasil ) that goes to the frost giants is the Well of Mimir. Wisdom and Intelligence are hidden there, and Mimir is the name of the well's owner. He is full of wisdom because he drinks of the well from the Gjallarhorn. All-father went there and asked for one drink from the well, but he did not get this until he gave one of his eyes as a pledge. As it says in The Sibyl's Prophesy : Odin, I know all, where you hid the eye in that famous Well of Mimir. Each morning Mimir drinks mead from Val-Father's pledge. Do you know now or what ? ( The Sibyl's Prophesy. 28 )”

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Book:The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology
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“…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on their husbands and sons, on their relations, their servants, and the poor.' More held, therefore, … 'the ideal of rational domesticity helped to liberate the individual within a supportive family framework.”

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Book:Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
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“So it is that the gods do not bestow graces in all ways on men, neither in stature nor yet in brains or eloquence; for there is a certain kind of man, less noted for beauty, but the god puts comeliness on his words, and they who look toward him are filled with joy at the sight, and he speaks to them without faltering in winning modesty, and shines among those who are gathered, and people look on him as on a god when he walks in the city. Another again in his appearance is like the immortals, but upon his words there is no grace distilled, as in your case the appearance is conspicuous, and not a god even would make it otherwise, and yet the mind there is worthless.”

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Book:The Odyssey of Homer / translated by George Herbert Palmer. 1892 [Leather Bound]
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