"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

Plato on Medicine
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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

Genet, Jean on Facts
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Life and Living
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world."

Shaw, George Bernard on Virtue
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"Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass."

Franklin, Benjamin on Neighbors
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"There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."

Thurber, James on Light
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"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

Overby, Mark on Love
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"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Light
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Flowers
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"Flowers are happy things."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on Flowers
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"From the withered tree, a flower blooms."

Unknown, Source on Hope
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"One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve."

Thoreau, Henry David on Flowers
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"I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on Flowers
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"To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

Blake, William on Flowers
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"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life."

Giraudoux, Jean on Flowers
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"Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."

Burbank, Luther on Flowers
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"To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

Wordsworth, William on Flowers
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"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

Kafka, Franz on Youth
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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on Scarcity
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"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Beauty
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on Beauty
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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on Beauty
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"The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Beauty
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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

Gibran, Kahlil on Beauty
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"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."

Horace on Beauty
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"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."

Proverb, Turkish on Heart
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"Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses."

Unknown, Source on Impatience
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"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Image
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"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."

Locke, John on Reverie
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Secrets
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"Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?"

Midler, Bette on Cats
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"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."

Chazal, Malcolm De on Laughter
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"Freedom is just chaos with better lighting."

Foster, Alan Dean on Freedom
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"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

Cezanne, Paul on Chaos
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"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

James, Henry on Tea
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on Attitude
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Words
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"Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself."

Saying, Zen on Inaction
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"When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge."

Kupferberg, Tuli on Ideas
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"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Sorrow
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