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"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."
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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
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"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
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"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."
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"You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out."
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"Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder."
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"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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"All the beauty lies in the sacredness of the heart."
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"Exuberance is beauty."
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"A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others."
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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
Life


"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
Life


"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."
Health


"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
Man


"The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."
Life


"If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong."
Joy


"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."
Happiness


"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Courage


"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall."
Courage
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