"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

Robbins, Tim on beauty
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"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."

Sand, George on beauty
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"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."

Sappho on beauty
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"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on beauty
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"If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on beauty
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

Stendhal, Henri B. on beauty   

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing."

Stopes, Marie Carmichael on beauty
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"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."

Thompson, Roy on beauty
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"Trust not too much to an enchanting face."

Virgil on beauty
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"I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back."

Brooks, Phillips on burdens
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"None knows the weight of another's burden."

Herbert, George on burdens
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"God gave burdens, also shoulders."

Proverb, Yiddish on burdens
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"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back."

Mitchell, Silas Weir on burdens
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"Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited."

Bierce, Ambrose on saints   

"Saintliness is also a temptation."

Anouilh, Jean on saints   

"People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptations to evil -- those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints."

Gallienne, Eva Le on saints
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"Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint."

Horton, Doug on saints   

"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."

Kierkegaard, Søren on saints
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"Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech."

Evangel on wisdom
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired."

Aeschylus on envy   

"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."

Antisthenes on envy
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"None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy."

Bacon, Francis on envy
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"Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]"

Bible on envy
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"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."

Browne, Sir Thomas on envy
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"Nothing sharpens sight like envy."

Fuller, Thomas on envy
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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

Gay, John on envy
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"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."

Herodotus on envy
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"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"Envy aims very high."

Ovid on envy
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"Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself."

Proverb, Danish on envy
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"Envy eats nothing, but its own heart."

Proverb, German on envy
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"They that envy others are their inferiors."

Saying on envy
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on envy
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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

Vidal, Gore on envy
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on beauty
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"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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