For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man … - Aeschylus

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Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

Aeschylus

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

Down, Fail, Fate, Hate, Men, Spun

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Doe, Man, Men, Reckon, Self, Wisely

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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger. , Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken. ]

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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

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