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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ↗

— George Santayana

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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. ↗

— George Santayana

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. ↗

— George Santayana

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved. ↗

— George Santayana

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. ↗

— George Santayana

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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. ↗

— George Santayana

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ↗

— George Santayana

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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ↗

— George Santayana

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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. ↗

— George Santayana

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