Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.Jean Toomer
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
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A visit to Georgia last fall was the starting point of almost everything of worth that I have done. I saw lhe rich dusk beauty. . . . And a deep part of my nature, a part that I had repressed, sprang suddenly to life and responded to them.
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Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.
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One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
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