"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

Bacon, Francis on beauty
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"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on desire
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"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on abstinence
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

Auden, W. H. on age and aging
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"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others."

Lucretius on taste   

"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."

Lucretius on wealth   

"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."

Lucretius on wit   

"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows."

Lucretius on science   

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied."

Lucretius on contentment   

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

Angelis, Barbara De on difficulties
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?"

Anonymous on athlete
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"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."

Anouilh, Jean on fear
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"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."

Arendt, Hannah on economy and economics   

"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."

Aristotle on affection
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"Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair."

Arnold, Matthew on dream
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"There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity."

Artaud, Antonin on delinquency   

"Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."

Barthes, Roland on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A woman's always younger than a man at equal years."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on age and aging   

"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on prayer
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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on beauty
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"Books succeed, and lives fail."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on books - reading
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"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on children   

"Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on happiness   

"The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on courage
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"For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on death   

"Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on uncategorised   

"Never let the other fellow set the agenda."

Baker, James on control
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"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

Bruyere, Jean De La on difficulties   

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

Buck, Pearl S. on age and aging
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"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."

Buddha on deeds and good deeds
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"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."

Buffett, Warren on nature
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"It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on photography
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"The devil's most devilish when respectable."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on evil
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"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on dictionaries   

"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on embarrassment   

"Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on experience   

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"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on faith
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"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on genius
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