“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.” IfsKnowsNeedsKindSoulFacesDesireTurnsOpportunityKnowingGreatnessShapesDareNobilityBoldnessComplacentKnowing The Future Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...” KnowsMenLittlesDoeKnowingGreatnessIllusionCover UpsLittle ManSmallness Author:Wilhelm Reich
“Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.” YearsPersonsEndsDoneCharacterOpportunityJusticePartyKnowingVirtueGreatnessFaultsCeaseEngagedStationsDispositionEnmityTrue CharacterKnowing The Truth Book:Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste