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My God, I would not live
Save that I think this gross hard-seeming world
Is our misshaping vision of the Powers
Behind the world, that make our griefs our gains.
--
The Sisters, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Alfred Tennyson (Lord)

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… once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it's going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live anymore compliant and complacent in the world as it is.

 

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