"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."

Contrast, Balance, Beauty, Disgust, Magnificence

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"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."

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"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Contrast, Joy, Hell

"Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Contrast, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Contrast, Light, Darkness, Time, Speed

"Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Contrast, Nature, Beauty, Surprise

"There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Contrast, Regret, Truth, Power, Today

"The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Contrast, Love, Hate, Truth, Wisdom

"The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Contrast, Weaknesses, Wise, Strengths, Fools

"The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Contrast, Fiction, Reality, Perception, Truth

"Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Contrast, Society, Change, Tradition, Consumer

"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Contrast, Roses

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"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive."

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"Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."

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"A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness."

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"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."

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"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

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"The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise."

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"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

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"No sensible person ever made an apology."

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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

Art