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Mark van Doren - From the Freedom category:
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Happiness category:
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can... give all our attention to the opportunity before us. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Humour category:
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Ideas category:
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Love category:
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Memory category:
Memory holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life... the companion... the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Poetry category:
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Teaching category:
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Wisdom category:
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. (Mark van Doren)
Mark van Doren - From the Writing category:
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. (Mark van Doren)
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