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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Money often costs too much.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.