“ Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing. ”
- Thomas De Quincey- Copy
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“ Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. ”
- Matthew- Copy
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“ The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love — every man works his oar voluntarily! ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
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“ Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true. ”
- George Dennison Prentice- Copy
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“ I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe I'd have more character. ”
- Jerry Hall- Copy
- 1.1K
“ My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. ”
- Alexander Herzen- Copy
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“ Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. ”
- Nelson Mandela- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ”
- Sara Teasdale- Copy
- 2.7K
“ There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! ”
- Saint Francis de Sales- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house. ”
- Franz Schubert- Copy
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“ The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ”
- Isaac Newton- Copy
- 1.2K
“ This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even better. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 1.2K
“ To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama. ”
- Junichiro Koizumi- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 827
“ Give us that grand word "woman:" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
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