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Epigraphs

Epigraph 1

  All rising to Great Place is by a Winding Staire
  — Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral (1625)

Epigraph 2

  Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'.
  — Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life

Epigraph 3

  Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
  With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
  That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
  Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
  And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
  Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
  In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
  Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (1385)


Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem;  and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry been usages.

Geoffrey Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde", 2.4.22-28 (1385)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Troilus_and_Criseyde:Book_II

Epigraph 4

  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"


  Whan it cam him to purpos for to reste,
  I trowe he hadde thilke text in minde,
  That 'alle thing, repeiring to his kinde,
  Gladeth him-self'; thus seyn men, as I gesse;
  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"


Work Area

  All rising to Great Place is by a Winding Staire
  — Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral (1625)


  Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'.
  — Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life


  Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
  With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
  That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
  Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
  And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
  Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
  In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (1385)


  Whan it cam him to purpos for to reste,
  I trowe he hadde thilke text in minde,
  That 'alle thing, repeiring to his kinde,
  Gladeth him-self'; thus seyn men, as I gesse;
  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"


Stand and unfold yourself. Hamlet: Francsico—1.1.2


Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . .
     Always substance and increase,
Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . .
     always a breed of life.

— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, [Whi, 28]

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  Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . .
       Always substance and increase,
  Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . .
       always a breed of life.
  — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, [Whi, 28]


 

Logical, however, is used in a third sense, which is at once more vital and more practical; to denote, namely, the systematic care, negative and positive, taken to safeguard reflection so that it may yield the best results under the given conditions.

 
— John Dewey, How We Think, [Dew, 56]