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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Bill Vaughan

Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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Along Busy Early Morning Walk Wonder
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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Common Hands People Sense
The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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Look Perfume Showers Struggle
One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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High Station Tedious Unmoved Unreasonable
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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Law Overdue Today
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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Names Political School
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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Book Countries Country World
And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Discussion Hence Intellectual Strength Theological
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Blushes Modesty Rainbow

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

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