"Life has taught me that it is not……" — Bernard Berenson
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
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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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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
— John Buchan
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
— Willa Cather
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I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
— Drake
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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
— Albert Einstein
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Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them…
— Josh Brolin
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I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can…
— Richard Chamberlain
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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
— Michael Douglas
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I dont know of one group of people thats more disliked than politicians -- it may be the folks who…
— Rick Santorum
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It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I…
— Laurence Harvey
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There are two ways through life: the way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which…
— Terrence Malick
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I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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