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“It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.”

Needs Mankind Pure Draws Roots Fruit Selfishness Branches Gratuity

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.”

Firsts Two Joy Parent Mankind Solitude Garden And Love Fruit Immortal

Author:John Milton

“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”

Use Culture Mankind Glory Structure Fruit Rebellion Assault Rotten Wisdom And Experience

Author:Judith Malina

“We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.”

Men Has Beens Whole Social Animal Technology Share Mankind Produce Direct Structure Fruit Notion Forgotten Producers

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.”

May Earth Spirit Views Mankind Fruit Defense Fruits Of The Spirit

Author:Philip Yancey

“I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.”

Thinking World Ends Country Poor Known Rich Mankind Military Amount Waste Fruit Massive Skeptical Expenditures Poor Countries

Author:Amartya Sen

“Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”

States Age Mankind Poet Spring Roots Fruit Innocent Golden Streams Never Ending Golden Age Garden Of Eden Nectar

Book:Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings

Source: Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings