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    Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

by Gail Godwin Found in: Literature Quotes,
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Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their read more

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

by Thomas Gray Found in: Literature Quotes,
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

by William J. Durant Found in: Literature Quotes,
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

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This book fills a much-needed gap.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

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Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles).

Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles).

by Helen Schucman Found in: Reality Quotes,
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Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Literature Quotes,
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred
river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, read more

Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred
river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank
the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard
from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!

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