Resemblance Quotes
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.
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In her prime, she bore a slight resemblance to Liberace, but in a more masculine way.
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Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
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I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.
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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
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When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.
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Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.
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The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.
