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fathomed

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of Fathom

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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. Lewis Mumford

A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mere intellectuals can never understand me through their intellect. If I am the Highest of the High, it becomes impossible for the intellect to gauge me, nor is it possible for my ways to be fathomed by the limited human mind. Meher Baba

The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round, That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound. Hafez

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city. Kevin Garnett

Your Dante ! Homer of the Christian age, The sacred poet of Faith's mysteries- Hero of thought-whose gloomy genius plunged In Styx, and pierced to hell ; and whose deep soul Was like the abyss it fathomed. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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