He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.
("Mythology")
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.Edith Hamilton
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an edcuated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is to be educated.
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For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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