To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate th…

T. S. Eliot
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. ✨ T. S. Eliot (1986). The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England, p.3, Harvard University Press
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