For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adv…

George Santayana
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2 … ▶
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. ✨ George Santayana (2012). The Sense of Beauty, p.70, Courier Corporation
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reas … ▶
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. ✨ George Santayana (2015). The Life of Reason: Human Un … ▶
Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles. ✨ Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts.

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