"One sometimes finds what one is not looking…" — Alexander Fleming

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
• Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once… — Paul Auster
• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it… — Teresa of Avila
• Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is… — Teresa of Avila
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. — Francis Bacon
• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of… — Francis Bacon
• The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its… — Honore de Balzac
• The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds… — Henry Ward Beecher
• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
• What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when… — Alexander Graham Bell
• India is a country in which every great religion finds a home. — Annie Besant

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