Frustrations..

So few do not have the laziness AND delve deeper into what words or a string of words mean... so few, reflect, contemplate, pour their minds to the lessons people of the past try to teach them.. they only know these as "Quotes".. thus my frustration with the sloganeering of truths. People quote these, not because they want to share the inherent value of what someone from the past paid a lifetime to learn, but because of some base and contemptimble reason the end of which is usually a satisfying of either of their: pride, vanity, naivete. gaaah. i rant! now i'm gonna share some of the more loaded lessons i've stumbled upon:
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. "
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"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."(people have reduced this to the pedestrian -sigh-)
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"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. "
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"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. "
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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."
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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" "
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"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."