The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Thomas Aquinas
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  1. The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only when God lays His headagainst us.

  2. Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

  3. The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

  4. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

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