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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.


T.S. Eliot

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T.S. ELIOT I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait w...
T.S. ELIOT When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan...
T.S. ELIOT The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. ELIOT Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S. ELIOT Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.
T.S. ELIOT I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
T.S. ELIOT The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T.S. ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
T.S. ELIOT For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno...
T.S. ELIOT Do I dare Disturb the universe?
T.S. ELIOT We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with s...
T.S. ELIOT Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
T.S. ELIOT There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...
T.S. ELIOT Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec...
T.S. ELIOT We understand the ordinary business of living,
We know how to work the machine
T.S. ELIOT Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
T.S. ELIOT It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
T.S. ELIOT We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...
T.S. ELIOT