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Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive. When you meet Beauty, you feel that the hands deep within your inner self are stretched forth to bring her into the domain of your heart. It is a magnificence combined of sorrow and joy; it is the Unseen which you see, and the Vague which you understand, and the Mute which you hear - it is the Holy of Holies that begins in yourself and ends vastly beyond your earthly imagination.

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Lillian Hellman, fully Lillian Florience "Lily" Hellman

God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess them up for all time, or hating the trash so much they will waste their future on the hatred.

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Lewis Mumford

Civilization begins by a magnificent materialization of human purpose; it ends in a purposeless materialism. An empty triumph, which revolts even the self that created it.

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Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom

Love is how you stay alive, even after you're gone ... Death ends a life, not a relationship.

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Ogden Nash

I prefer charity to hospitality because charity begins at home and hospitality ends there.

Charity | Ends | Hospitality |

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Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self; and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Anger | Ends | Folly | Repentance |

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities, whilst they are properly symbols only; when we have come, by a divine leading [illness?] into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteem final.

Character | Ends | Esteem | Learning |

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent finds its models, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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Robert Frost

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love.

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