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Famous quotes containing the word admit:

    Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Lady of light, I would admit a dream
    To you, if you would take it in your hand.
    Will you not let it in a gentle stream
    Of living blood? How else may I remand
    Your light if not as pulse upon your ear?
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
    Hannah Arendt (1906–75)