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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with…
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
— Samuel Johnson
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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
— Samuel Johnson
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…
— James Boswell
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But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken…
— Unknown Author
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