Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
quote by Graham Greene
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Wisdom without morality is like a ring without a gem.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
quote by William Bennett
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Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson in Kingdom of Fear
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Curiosity
Because of curiosity
All the Vandals had to see
The golden throne
Of Ancient Rome
And brought the city to its knees
Because of curiosity
Because of curiosity
I'm just riddled with anxiety
I'm the lowest level
As a matter of fact
I often dwell for days on this
But when I see your smiling face
I'm so disgraced
And if you're holding out on me
I get curious
As curious as I can be
Curious
Because of curiosity
Curiosity killed the cat
But satisfaction brought it back
In terms of this cat
As a matter of fact
I'll meet you at the old mouse hole
I'll meet you at the old mouse hole
When I see your smiling face
I'm so disgraced
If you're holding out on me
I get curious
As curious as I can be
Curious as I can be
Curious as I can be
Yeah, curiosity
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The Withering Of The Boughs
I CRIED when the moon was mutmuring to the birds:
'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will,
I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words,
For the roads are unending, and there is no place to my mind.'
The honey-pale moon lay low on the sleepy hill,
And I fell asleep upon lonely Echtge of streams.
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.
I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake;
I know where a dim moon drifts, where the Danaan kind
Wind and unwind their dances when the light grows cool
On the island lawns, their feet where the pale foam gleams.
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.
I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by;
I know, and the curlew and peewit on Echtge of streams.
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.
poem by William Butler Yeats
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A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
quote by Smiley Blanton
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Morality Make Beauty
Would the things you do
Make you beautiful
Probably
Surely we have two sides in everything
The two sides of beauty
You and you
Inside and outside
Ever and never
Inexhaustible and exhaustible
Let just start right here
Cosmetics made me looked beautiful
But I wander
How long would this last
When it is never hidden from the
Solemn standing sun
The sun shall shine
And tomorrow the sun shall dry this beauty away
Some call it old age
Why won't this beauty last?
Some also say old age annihilates beauty
Hey!
How long would you remain a secret to the majority?
You contemptuously say to cosmetic
Beauty maker
Is that what they call you?
Oh mercy you despicable
Morality makes you beautiful you
Morality makes you beautiful inside
Morality makes you beautiful for ever
Morality makes you your world beautiful
Your inside matters
The sun don't dry it up c
It hidden from the solemn standing sun
Morality overcomes the sun's annihilation
Let morality make you up
Behold drifting away shall your beauty not be
Forever shall it bloom as the sun shines
poem by Moses Amen Nyinaku
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Defeating Artistic Fame Fortune
Our sure fire barbeque secret technique
to defeating artistic fame fortune
is to salt diverse prolific creative output
with a good sprinkling of Christianity
among love poems defining all facets
in shape shifting alluring bewitching love
heart torn emotions
love struck
long to read in ecstasy
work poetic writ mix
in religion politics morality
ethics in corpus style
fuse music of universes
unknown to sense lost deaf
will sense tunes unknown
disinterest shadow
mystic read keys
follow flight trajectories
do not spread the news
secret recipe hidden
wisdom love infused.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America
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I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
quote by Donald Judd
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If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.
quote by Jay Alan Sekulow
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
quote by Mohandas Gandhi
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
quote by Matthew Arnold
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
quote by Matthew Arnold
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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
quote by Robert Bork
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
quote by Mohandas Gandhi
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
quote by Joseph Addison
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