#he

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ↗

— George Eliot

#dead #fingers #handle #happen #make

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ↗

— George Eliot

#beginning #definite #get #ignorance #our

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ↗

— Boethius

#give #higher #itself #law #love is

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. ↗

— Boethius

#degrades #either #ennobles #music #our

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#artistic #i #i think #love #more

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? ↗

— Boethius

#cometh #evils #god #good #many

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#cannot #childhood #hell #prolonged #remain

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#any #arts #cannot #exist #feeling

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#check #city #federal #federal government #go