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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.


Charles Baudelaire

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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C. JOYBELL C. Sun shines on my back as I walk away
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MARILYN MANSON If rape or arson, poison or the knife
Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff
Of this d...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but becau...
CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
KHALIL GIBRAN Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble tha...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.
JAMIE FOXX Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
JAMIE FOXX She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy...
PATRICIA BRIGGS The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is a beautiful feeling.
KABIR BEDI The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, whic...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is...
JAMES THOMSON (1) Life is beautiful but people are crazy.
CHARLES OSGOOD Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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APURVA GAGLANI Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
W.W. STORY We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!
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HENRI BERGSON What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to...
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
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ABRAHAM HICKS The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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ABHIJIT NASKAR Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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MICHAEL HARRIS New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opin...
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MICHAEL P. NAUGHTON That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
NINON DE LENCLOS That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
NITIN NOHRIA Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason
ANDRE GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRé GIDE I am blessed.
I am beautiful.
I am great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sp...
AVIJEET DAS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
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KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.
AVA DELLAIRA Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Love. Do you feel it? It encircles you in its embrace of simplicity. Moment by moment love is there ...
COLLEEN LAUKKA It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.
CHRIS MARTIN Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
JOSEPH JOUBERT Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artf...
ROSE MCCAULAY If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything...
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu...
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DAVID D. FLOWERS Junior golf in South Carolina, going back to Charles, Lucas and those guys, is a definite reason why...
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JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates...
PLATO What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!
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CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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