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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! – Oliver Goldsmith

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Beauty
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Drugs
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Aromatic plants bestow
no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crushd or trodden to the ground,
diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Smell (scent)
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Work alone will efface the footsteps of work. – James Whistler

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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reasons imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. – Louis Aragon

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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. – William Butler Yeats

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Youre alone in your ideas, because youre the only one who knows whats possible. – Bethenny Frankel

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