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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Quote by Francis Bacon about fame, things, light

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about religion, lie, justice