George Santayana Quotes and Sayings
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“It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.”
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“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”
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“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
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“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
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“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
-- George Santayana