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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
Beauty
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
Ignorance
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
Sacrifice
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
Nature
"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
Books
"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
Love
"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
Man
"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."
Time
"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."
Work
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
Art
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"In my beginning is my end."
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Personal Development
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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Personal Development
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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Personal Development
"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
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Personal Development
"Everything started as nothing."
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Personal Development
"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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Personal Development
"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."
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"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."
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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."
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Personal Development
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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