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Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure… — Louise Bogan
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt… — Lewis Gannett
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. — Robert Breault
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. — May Sarton
The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what… — Dan Kiley
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It… — W. Somerset Maugham
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that… — Albert Camus
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains… — Miguel de Cervantes
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with… — D. H. Lawrence
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of… — Aldous Huxley
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. — Janet Morris
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit… — John Stuart Mill
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. — Claude Shannon
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is… — Maya Angelou
Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot. — Seneca the Younger
...above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times… — Shannon Miller

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