"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

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"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."

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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."

Self-Reliance, Promises, Self, Value, World

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

Beauty, Perception

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"

Appreciation, Blind, Fact, Skin, Spirit

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

People, Trouble, Want

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born."

"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."

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"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."