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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such… — Joseph Addison
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school. — Martha Beck
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive… — Martha Beck
I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my… — Kate Beckinsale
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. — Mortimer Adler
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and… — Samuel Beckett
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. — Kate Beckinsale
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different… — Kate Beckinsale
I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting. — Kate Beckinsale
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. — Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. — Henry Ward Beecher
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. — Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. — Henry Ward Beecher
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. — Max Beerbohm
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. — Max Beerbohm
It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they? — Mark Addy

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