George Santayana

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George Santayana Poems

• Sonnet Vii
  I would I might forget that I am I,
  And break the heavy chain that binds me fast,
  Whose links about myself my deeds have cast.
  What in the bodyâ??s tomb doth buried lie ...
• Sonnet Xliii
  The candor of the gods is in thy gaze,
  The strength of Diane in thy virgin hand,
  Commanding as the goddess might command,
  And lead her lovers into higher ways. ...
• Before A Statue Of Achilles
  I
  
  Behoild Pelides with his yellow hair,
  Proud child of Thetis, hero loved of Jove; ...
• The Power Of Art
  Not human art, but living gods alone
  Can fashion beauties that by changing live,--
  Her buds to spring, his fruits to autumn give,
  To earth her fountains in her heart of stone; ...
• Mont Brevent
  O dweller in the valley, lift thine eyes
  To where, above the drift of cloud, the stone
  Endures in silence, and to God alone
  Upturns its furrowed visage, and is wise. ...

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George Santayana Quotes

• Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
• The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
• All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

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• Rnfayemdrd: “there is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” — george santayana happy birthday ruru
• Mceee16: the wisest mind hath something yet to learn. -george santayana happy birthday ruru
• Rnsurigaodelnor: "there is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - george santayana happy birthday ruru
• Mightypenblog: the truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free though who have loved it. ~philosopher george santayana
• Vippusao: 1918 — spanish flu. “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -george santayana

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