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Cicero
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
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Irish Proverb
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Mary Wilson Little
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
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Andrew Schneider
You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.
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Andrew Carnegie
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
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Jean Houston
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Edmund Burke
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.
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Carmen Sylva
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
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