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Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. — Herman Melville
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity,… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a… — Oscar Wilde
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread,… — Alexander Hamilton
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not… — Charles Caleb Colton
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. — William Lloyd Garrison
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite. — Elie Wiesel
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. — Thomas Carlyle
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty,… — George Boole
Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. — Vince Lombardi
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its… — Aeschylus
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought… — Phillips Brooks
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different… — Salman Rushdie
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows… — Marquis de Sade
I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to… — Tom Glazer
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is… — Soren Kierkegaard
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the… — Edward Abbey
All love is lost but upon God alone. — William Dunbar
Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear… — William Wordsworth

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