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/ page 344 of 1205 /Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species--preference for man simply because we are men--is not sentiment, then what is?
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No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
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Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
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We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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