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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

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The grace of God is courtesy.

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The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

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There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 27th, 1870

Died: July 16th, 1953

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