"A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom."
-Richard Le Gallienne
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"We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.“
-Richard Le Gallienne
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"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."
-Richard Le Gallienne
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"The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct."
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"All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs."
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"There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report."
-Richard Le Gallienne
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"There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report."
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"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."
-Emily Prager
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"All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep."
-Ralph Venning
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"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."
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"The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring."
-Ambrose Philips
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"I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion."
-Isaac Albeniz
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