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Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

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Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

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Everything lies within space, and everything happens within time.

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Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

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To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

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William Macneile Dixon

William Macneile Dixon

Born: 1866
Died: 1946 (aged 80)
Bio: William Macneile Dixon was a British author and academic.
Known for:
  1. The human situation (1937)
  2. English epic and heroic poetry (1912)
  3. The fleets behind the fleet (1917)
  4. The British navy at war (1917)
  5. The English Parnassus

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