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To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beau

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. – Samuel Butler

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Logic
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Samuel Butler
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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respect
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Samuel Butler
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Beauty
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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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Beauty

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think thats the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings. – Janelle Monae

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Beauty

The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Beauty

I grew up in a family where we werent allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. – Pam Grier

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Beauty

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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. – Anne Bronte

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Ive always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system. – Oren Peli

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Never believe straight off in a mans unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answers yes, alls well. That is enough. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the heros heart. – Proverb

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