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  • Henry Miller Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
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  • George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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  • St. Teresa of Avila Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Plato Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bai Ling Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Marie Beyon Ray Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Charles F. Kettering Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Günter Grass Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Oscar Wilde Between the famous and the infamous there is but one step.
    De Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
    Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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