"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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"To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Contrast, Truth, Regret, Life, Wisdom

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Contrast, Light, Darkness, Time, Speed

"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Contrast, Roses

"Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Contrast, Truth, Regret, Inspirational, Today

"Logic only gives man what he needs, he stammered. "Magic gives him what he wants."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Contrast, Logic, Magic, Needs, Behavior

"He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other."

Eoin Colfer, Irish Author

Contrast, Courage, Violence, Strength

"Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Contrast, Inspirational, People, Life, Action

"In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department."

Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist

Contrast, University

"At the end of every light, is a tunnel of darkness."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Contrast, Darkness, Hope, Light, Despair

"The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Contrast, Ugly

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

Nature

"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."

Art

"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."

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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."

Attitude

"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories."

Knowledge

"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"

Nature

"Nature is saturated with deity."

Faith

"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."

Business

"To Be is to live with God."

Faith

"We never touch but at points."

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