Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
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IX, 7.Marcus Aurelius
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And didst thou hope, by thy infuriate quill
To rouse mankind the blood of realms to spill?
Then to restore, on death devoted plains,
Their scourge to tyrants, and to man his chains?
To swell their souls with thy own bigot rage,
And blot the glories of so bright an age?
First stretch thy arm, and with less impious might,
Wipe out the stars, and quench the solar light :
“For heav'n and earth," the voice of God ordains,
“Shall pass and perish, but my word remains,"
Th' eternal Word, which gave, in spite of thee,
Reason to man, that bids the man be free.Joel Barlow
The mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to the law we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,
So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry;
Blot out the epic’s stately rhyme,
But spare his "Highland Mary!"John Greenleaf Whittier
Our experiments aim at letting thought express itself spontaneously without the control which reason represents. By means of this irrational spontaneity we get closer tot the vital source of life. Our goal is to liberate ourselves from the control of reason which has been and still is the thing which the bourgeoisie has idealized to seize control of life.
Asger Jorn
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?
George Eliot
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