"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

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"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

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"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."

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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."

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"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung."

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"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."

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"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

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"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."

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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."

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"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

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"Give me love and work - these two only."

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"No man is good enough to be another's master."

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