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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world…
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The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the…
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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we…
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I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy…
— Unknown Author
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The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than…
— Isaac Barrow
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Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature;…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
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That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together…
— Charles Fletcher Dole
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Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and…
— Gerald May
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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