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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Beauty Most Adorned When
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Calls Devil Engaged Ever
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Haste is of the Devil.

Devil Of The Haste
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Book Daughter First First Of All
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Confess Eyes Face Heart
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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Brain Good Out Speed
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Why do you not practice what you preach.

Practice Preach Why You
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Breeds Fat Fine Never
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Affection Love Love Is Price
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Difficulty Found Friend Hardly
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Am Away Begun Entrusted
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My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Belly God Land Live
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Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Abandon God Held Lord
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

Ask Does Give Gratify
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Life Living Worth Worth Living
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Always Between Breeze Cracking
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

According Action Advance Aimless
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Being Central Dead Enjoy
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Know Knowing Nothing Only
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Afflicted Because Company Drawn
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Artist Certainly Fellow Heart
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Greatest Honor Live Pretend
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

End Every Finally Gets
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Best Blessings General God
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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An honest man is always a child.
Always Child Honest Honest Man
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Destroy Easily Make Power
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Anything Embarked Explanation Life
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Artist Distinguishes First Great
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Book Easy Just Offended
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Easily Employ Gain Hard
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Admitting Enemies Hate Point
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Book Ignore Like Offer
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Anymore Fiction Job Just
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Employs He His How
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Blessings Death Greatest Human
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Come Deadliest Deepest Desires
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Author Find Get Go
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Exists Know Knowing Knowledge
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Drink Eat Live Only
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Explain God Idea Live
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Action Becomes Excess Finest
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Because Everywhere Extension Fear
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Become Facts Legends Make
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Chiefly Good Good Life Life
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Ceases Exist Expression Freedom
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