"you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard"
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"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth."
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"All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity."
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"Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth."
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"But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent."
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"The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver."
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"It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts."
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"My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality."
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"Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence."
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"The sole aim of journalism should be service."
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"Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment."
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"Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature."
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"My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter."
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"The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God."
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"Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary"
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