The Light of Asia, as a literary contribution, is simply charming; as a page of history, Mr. Arnold’s poem has the value of a zero from which the formative circle has been eliminated.

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Gilded butterflies = kings and nobles.

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Jesters do oft prove prophets.

To dominate the actual world you must, like Archimedes, base your fulcrum somewhere beyond.

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In woman a silken gown covers a multitude of sins.
Jesus died on the Cross, Socrates in the prison, Galileo in jail, Columbus in chains, John Huss upon the stake.

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There is but One Purpose running through and underlying all changes and circumstances in the world; and that is Self-Realization or Renunciation.

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Those who move in “society” are so surrounded with affectations that they are decidedly “Exclusive” and shut off from everyone and this shutting off is what constitutes Hell.

Too much society acts like a veil over one’s mental vision. We must remind ourselves that we f have plenty of Time. It is not dignified for a race of Immortals to hurry so; least of all is it good policy to hill oneself in trying to live. The years are ours and the centuries ours.

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Say what you have to say, not what you ought, no-ought.
Worldly men come, induce personal honour in you and then when you begin to feel it, they immediately take it off.