T. S. Eliot Quotes, Believe Quotes, Cat Quotes

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

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We must learn to suffer more.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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Old men ought to be explorers.

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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

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Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

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To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

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And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

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Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

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