The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
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Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
~ Francis Quarles ~
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
~ Clive Staples Lewis ~
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Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
~ Anonymous ~
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson ~
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
~ D. H. Lawrence ~
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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
~ Homer ~
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~ William Blake ~
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
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The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
~ Katherine Mansfield ~
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.
~ Robinson Jeffers ~
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Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
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My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
~ Walt Whitman ~
Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage.
~ Aristophanes ~
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
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Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
~ Anonymous ~
Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
~ Anonymous ~
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
~ Joseph Addison ~
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
~ George Eliot ~
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If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.
~ Anonymous ~
If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.
~ Anonymous ~
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I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?
~ Lewis Carroll ~
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
~ Clive Staples Lewis ~
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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And remember my love, Car rides are only funs'es when 1 of the 7 people in 1 car, knows how to do 0-waste tour around 2 of the 339 divine numbers.
~ Eliah Leon ~
Relation is the bond of concern, love and care towards each other it need feelings not language.
~ Rayaba Saindane ~
Anything you can't pay for either by labour or favour you're still a caretaker.
~ Effi David ~
Don't be carried away by applauses, sometimes it's a sign of well done, and big lost in the other hand.
~ Effi David ~
Carnality breeds carnality.
Spirit breeds Spirit.
The carnal mind can not comprehend the works of the Spirit.
~ Reinhardt Van Der Westhuizen ~
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