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James Stephens
Irish
Poet
Born:
Feb 9
,
1880
Died:
Dec 26
,
1950
Before
Man
Men
Will
Women
You
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens
Fear
Will
More
Than
Curiosity
Bravery
Even
Conquer
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
James Stephens
Wise
Back
Carries
Answer
Shell
Answered
Snail
Question
Questions
Get
Asking
Asking Questions
Even
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
James Stephens
Needs
Man
Memory
Past
Well
Content
Itself
Man Needs
Forgetfulness
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
James Stephens
Feeling
Our
Lies
Vanity
Wrongdoing
Beyond
Fellows
Privileged
Personal
Endowed
If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.
James Stephens
Women
Political
Men
Half
Would
Entire
Economy
Well
Understood
Political Economy
Domestic
Which
Then
Muddle
Consequent
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
James Stephens
Bird
Rose
Inside
Pot
Wing
Outside
Like
Perfume
Without
Gold
To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.
James Stephens
You
Yourself
Problem
Care
Mind
Will
Become
Frame
Must
Occupation
Answer
Question
Questions
Precision
Ask
Your
Meditate
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
Saying
You
Yourself
Before
Think
Consist
Exactly
Exactly What
No-One
Does
Said
Originality
Ever
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
James Stephens
Women
Enemies
Birds
Indeed
See
Able
Both
Heads
Without
Provision
Surrounded
Turning
Necessary
By having much, you are fitted to have more.
James Stephens
You
Having
More
Fitted
Much
Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.
James Stephens
Wisdom
Women
Men
Stronger
Women Are
Than
Die
We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
James Stephens
World
First
Profit
Pleasure
Out
Both
Take
Coming
Nor
Any
Going
Washed
Washing
Last
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
James Stephens
Nature
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Fool
Natural
Will
Healthy
Every
Unnecessary
Him
Himself
Knows
Reduce
Quickly
Labour
Any
Again
Wash
A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.
James Stephens
Man
Woman
Will
Become
Before
Other
Meet
Intimate
Parallel
Minutes
Never
Almost
Hour
Quarter
Lines
Endeavour
Quite
May
Which
Explain
Themselves
Certainly
Less
Many
Even
Each
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.
James Stephens
Achievement
Hate
World
Victory
Evil
Finality
Hopelessly
More
Attainment
Greatest
Woeful
Nor
Tragedy
Than
Any
Movement
Happen
Which
Barren
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
James Stephens
Knowledge
Possible
Follow
See
Seeing
Magic
More
Higher
Know
Knowing
Sought
Does
Said
Than
Quite
May
Happening
Either
While
Forward
Believing
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