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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Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. ✨ George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings, p.321, Indiana Unive … ▶
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and … ▶
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). The Life … ▶
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. ✨ George Santayana (2014). Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opin … ▶
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 … ▶

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