"I would willingly stand at street corners, hat……" — Bernard Berenson
"I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it."
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32 Quotes by Bernard Berenson
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired…
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or…
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness…
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self…
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to…
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More Begging Quotes
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
— Mortimer Adler
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I don't like begging money from producers.
— David Byrne
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number…
— Ronald Reagan
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We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the…
— Richard Branson
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood…
— Sylvia Plath
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
— Oscar Wilde
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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not…
— Cesar Chavez
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
— Martin Luther
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
— Jeanette Winterson
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