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Yoshida Kenko has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the…
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On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease,…
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Ambition never comes to an end.
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Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations…
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One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to…
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he…
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If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
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You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl…
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Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
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The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from…
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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends…
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The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
— George MacDonald
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Compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we…
— Dalai Lama
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It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain…
— Jonathan Ive
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires…
— Sigmund Freud
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Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within…
— Dalai Lama
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For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.
— Cher
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
— Albert Einstein
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The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
— Ralph Richardson
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She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
— John Green
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You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man…
— Ben Feldman
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Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
— Gene Wilder
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Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
— William Shakespeare
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