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Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. - Thomas

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. – Thomas Carlyle

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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, wont in the end affirm or deny anything. – Thomas Carlyle

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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. – Lord Barnett

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