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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I… — George Herbert
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. — Alexander Pope
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. — Alexander Pope
One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home. — William Stafford
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean… — Blaise Pascal
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. — Bertrand Russell
The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions. — David Ogilvy
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern… — Sigmund Freud
every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know. — Robert M. Pirsig
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again. — Will Smith
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. — Jacob Burckhardt
Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will. — Ludwig von Mises
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big… — Robert Henri
At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it. — Ramakrishna
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions.… — Ben Shahn
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds. — William Manchester
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. — Max Muller
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology,… — Denis Donoghue
Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is… — Bryan Davis
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. — Asger Jorn
The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his… — Graham Collier

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