Francis Quarles Quotes
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong.
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When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
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No one's trying to get with jugglers.
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According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits.
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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
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If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
