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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

Ezra Pound

Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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