"To be surrounded by beautiful things has much……" — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more."
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68 Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman has 68 quotes on this site.
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in…
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance…
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one…
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential…
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Life is a verb, not a noun.
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While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year,…
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More Beautiful Quotes
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
— Alexis Arguello
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
— David Attenborough
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
— Saint Augustine
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
— Paul Auster
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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