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Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
A Preface to Paradise Lost (1941) -
Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.
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Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.
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Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) -
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
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Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Or I get my navel fluff out and weave it into wigs so that fleas can act out Victorian melodramas
Dandelion Mind -
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
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