Francis Quarles Quotes
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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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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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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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For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
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What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.
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I'd like to live to a hundred.
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I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.
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Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
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Experiencing flow helps a person remember that they are unique. ... Just like everyone else.
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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
