Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts Hast not thy share On winged feet, Lo it rushes thee to meet ...
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The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.Marsilio Ficino
These old shoes are easy to the feet.
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No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room....
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The imagination ... inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and ... a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
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Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
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