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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innoc ...

James Baldwin

innocence

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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the neve ...

Salvador Dali

television

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Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than plea ...

Thomas Henry Huxley

good | evil | pain

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Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I c ...

Thomas Henry Huxley

equality | women

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Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our ey ...

Henry Miller

acceptance

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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she "allures" us to our death.

Gertrude Stein

hope

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The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld;
And in the midst of spoils and slaves, we thieves ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

starvation

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The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms, by the manly grace of its clergy. The gospel it preaches i ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

protestantism

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"It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat ...

Robert Frost

ridicule | snow

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This "charity-house," as the wrecker called it, this "Humane house," as some call it, that is, the one to which we first came, had ... neither window nor sliding shutter, nor clapboards, nor paint. As we have said, there was a rusty nail put through the staple. However, as we wished to get an idea of a Humane house, and we hoped that we should never have a better opportunity, we put our eyes, by turns, to a knot-hole in the door, and, after long looking, without seeing, into the dark,--not knowing how many shipwrecked men's bones we might see at last, looking with the eye of faith, knowing that, though to him that knocketh it may not always be opened, yet to him that looketh long enough through a knot-hole the inside shall be visible,--for we had had some practice at looking inward,--by steadily keeping our other ball covered from the light meanwhile, putting the outward world behind us, ocean and land, and the beach,--till the pupil became enlarged and collected the rays of light that were wandering in that dark (for the pupil shall be enlarged by looking; there was never so dark a night but a faithful and patient eye, however small, might at last prevail over it),--after all this, I say, things began to take shape to our vision,--if we may use this expression where there was nothing but emptiness,--and we obtained the long-wished-for insight. Though we thought at first that it was a hopeless case, after several minutes' steady exercise of the divine faculty, our prospects began steadily to brighten, and we were ready to exclaim with the blind bard of "Paradise Lost and Regained,"--
"Hail, holy Light! offspring of Heaven first-born,
Or of the Eternal coeternal beam
May I express thee unblamed?"
A little longer, and a chimney rushed red on our sight. In short, when our vision had grown familiar with the darkness, we discovered that there were some stones and some loose wads of wool on the floor, and an empty fireplace at the further end; but it was not supplied with matches, or straw, or hay, that we could see, nor "accommodated with a bench." Indeed, it was the wreck of all cosmical beauty there within.
Turning our backs on the outward world, we thus looked through the knot-hole into the Humane house, into the very bowels of mercy; and for bread we found a stone. It was literally a great cry (of sea-mews outside), and a little wool. However, we were glad to sit outside, under the lee of the Humane house, to escape the piercing wind; and there we thought how cold is charity! how inhumane humanity! This, then, is what charity hides! Virtues antique and far away, with ever a rusty nail over the latch; and very difficult to keep in repair, withal, it is so uncertain whether any will ever gain the beach near you. So we shivered round about, not being able to get into it, ever and anon looking through the knot-hole into that night without a star, until we concluded that it was not a humane house at all, but a seaside box, now shut up, belonging to some of the family of Night or Chaos, where they spent their summers by the sea, for the sake of the sea-breeze, and that it was not proper for us to be prying into their concerns.

Henry David Thoreau

humane houses | inspirational

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