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Quote by Gustave Courbet
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. – Gustave Courbet

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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. – Gustave Courbet

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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. – Gustave Courbet

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By others faults the wise correct their own. – Proverb

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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. – James Gibbons Huneker

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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. – Kenny Rogers

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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. – Rowan D. Williams

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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. – Andrew Weil

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So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I havent realised. – Emily Mortimer

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