Essence Quotes
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.
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The very essence of success is practice.
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Pure thought is itself the divine existence; and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought.
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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
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The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?
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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
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The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.
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In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.
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He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
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Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
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Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
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We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
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Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
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All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
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The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
