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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" |
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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 . . . . |
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, [Whi, 28] |
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. |
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— John Dewey, How We Think, [Dew, 56] |