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Nobilities, indecencies, heroic impulses, cowardly ravings, good and bad, white and black — the mystery of mysteries, the central island of nescience in a sea of science, the dark spot in the lighted room of knowledge, the unknown quantity, the X in the universal problem.

— Frank Crane Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)

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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

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The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.

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