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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Beautiful Happiness Promise
The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Brain Fear Live Man Power Regain Religion Virtue Way Young
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Action Crystal Discover Event Mindset
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Life Regain Short Wasted Time
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Better Collection Future Hope Lost Love Passion Yourself
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Clever Fear Foundation Religion Smart
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Devil Different Man Touch
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Drink Eyes Love Ourselves Shine Stardom
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Enough History Interest Moral
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beautiful Fear Herself Love Mindset
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Age Independent Love Quite Willing
Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Action Freedom Man Pleasure Refusal
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Break Character Generosity Life Pride Question Sacrifice Woman
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Alone Art Genius Himself Man Water
It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Better Choice Husband Lover Romantic
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Boredom Happiness Life

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