To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to con… - T. S. Eliot

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

T. S. Eliot

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born English poet, dramatist and literary critic. Noted for spiritual and religious themes in many of his poems, he converted from Unitarianism to Anglicanism in 1927.

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Alternative Names: Eliot • T S Eliot • Thomas Eliot • T.S. Eliot

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