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Charles Lamb
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
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Oswald Spengler
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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Michel de Montaigne
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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William Wordsworth
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
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Lao Tzu
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.
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Katharine Graham
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun
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Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
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Wystan Hugh Auden
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.
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George Tooker
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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