"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother."

Colbert, Claudette on enemies
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"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."

Chesterfield, Lord on enemies
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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

Cervantes, Miguel De on enemies
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."

Kissinger, Henry on enemies
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"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."

Carlyle, Thomas on enemies
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"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

Franklin, Benjamin on absence
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"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her."

Rowland, Helen on absence
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"Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood."

Ashley, Elizabeth on absence
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"Woman absent is woman dead."

Bierce, Ambrose on absence
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"Absence -- that common cure of love."

Cervantes, Miguel De on absence
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"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation."

Hugo, Victor on absence
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" there comes a point in your life, when you realise who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will, so don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future."

Unknown on missing you
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

Tolkien, J. R. on farewells
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"Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you."

Rogers, Roy on farewells   

"Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)"

Proverb, French on farewells
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"We only part to meet again."

Gay, John on farewells
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"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

Byron, Lord on farewells
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"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

Robbins, Tim on beauty
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"Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity."

Pindar on beauty
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"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so."

O'Hara, Frank on beauty
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Keats, John on beauty
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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

Hughes, Langston on beauty
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"Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense."

Hubbard, Kin on beauty
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"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me."

Heller, Elizabeth on beauty   

"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance."

Ruskin, John on beauty
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"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."

Thompson, Roy on beauty
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do."

Estabrook, Fred on contentment   

"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."

Edwards, Tryon on contentment
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"Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell"

Copeland, Bill on contentment
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"People are never free of trying to be content."

Bookchin, Murray on contentment   

"For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]"

Bible on contentment
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"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."

Allen, Fred A. on contentment
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"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

Weil, Simone on beauty   

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on beauty
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"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."

Frye, Northrop on beauty
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