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Thomas Aquinas Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis I do not think the resemblance between the Christian and the merely imaginative experience is accidental. I think that all things, in their own way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. "Reflect" is the important word. This lower life of the imagination is not a beginning of, nor a step toward, the higher life of the spirit, merely an image.
Mark Twain The Public is merely a multiplied "me.
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