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Epigraphs

Epigraph 1

  All rising to Great Place is by a Winding Staire
  — Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral (1625)

Epigraph 2

  Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'.
  — Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life

Epigraph 3

  Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
  With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
  That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
  Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
  And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
  Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
  In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
  Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (1385)


Epigraph 4

  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"


  Whan it cam him to purpos for to reste,
  I trowe he hadde thilke text in minde,
  That 'alle thing, repeiring to his kinde,
  Gladeth him-self'; thus seyn men, as I gesse;
  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"


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  All rising to Great Place is by a Winding Staire
  — Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral (1625)


  Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'.
  — Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life


  Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
  With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
  That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
  Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
  And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
  Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
  In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (1385)


  Whan it cam him to purpos for to reste,
  I trowe he hadde thilke text in minde,
  That 'alle thing, repeiring to his kinde,
  Gladeth him-self'; thus seyn men, as I gesse;
  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"


Stand and unfold yourself. Hamlet: Francsico—1.1.2


Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . .
     Always substance and increase,
Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . .
     always a breed of life.

— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, [Whi, 28]

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  Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . .
       Always substance and increase,
  Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . .
       always a breed of life.
  — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, [Whi, 28]


 

Logical, however, is used in a third sense, which is at once more vital and more practical; to denote, namely, the systematic care, negative and positive, taken to safeguard reflection so that it may yield the best results under the given conditions.

 
— John Dewey, How We Think, [Dew, 56]