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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Ezra Pound

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue

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