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Alas! how little can a moment show
Of an eye where feeling plays
In ten thousand dewy rays:
A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
Of an eye where feeling plays
In ten thousand dewy rays:
A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
The Triad
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight - it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift,
Is quick and transient, comes, and lo! is gone,
While Northern thought is slow and durable.
Is quick and transient, comes, and lo! is gone,
While Northern thought is slow and durable.
Luria
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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