T. S. Eliot Quotes About Wrong Things
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.
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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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