Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
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Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater.
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The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
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The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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When you see yourself in proportion as you're bound to do when you get some sense then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down.
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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.
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I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide
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There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
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There isnothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
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Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.
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If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
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We are born to inquire into truth it belongs to a greater to possess it.
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The greater man the greater courtesy.
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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
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Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
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The greater love is a mother's then comes a dog's then a sweetheart's.
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Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
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