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The power is yours, but not the sight;
You see not upon what you tread;
You have the ages for your guide,
But not the wisdom to be led.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

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More quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

The Three Taverns (1920)

No matter what we are, and what we sing,
Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Your Dollar is your only Word,
The wrath of it your only fear.
You build it altars tall enough
To make you see, but your are blind;
You cannot leave it long enough
To look before you or behind.

Cassandra (1950)

You have made
The cement of your churches out of tears
And ashes, and the fabric will not stand.

Captain Craig (1902)

We are young
And we are friends of time.

Captain Craig (1902)

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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

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'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'

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It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman All Fools (1605)

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