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Makes Quotes by George Santayana
- The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it…
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
- The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it…
- The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate…
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
- The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a…
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it.
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine