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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

—Voltaire

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

—Alexander Pope

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

—Walt Whitman

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At my age flowers scare me.

—George Burns

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

—Agatha Christie

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I just don't know…how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?

—Sarah Dessen in Lock and Key

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You want a man who wants to be with you above everybody. Not as a last resort.

—Chrissie Manby in Getting Over Mr. Right

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Life is full of so much that you refuse to let yourself experience. The blanketing comfort of love, the fulfillment of contagious laughter, the peace of finding true joy, the butterflies of uncontainable excitement…these are all things that make up life. They should never be taken for granted.

—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

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I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken.

—Tammara Webber in Where You Are

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

—Alexander Pope

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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

—E. O. Wilson

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There is the sky, which is all men's together.

—Euripides

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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

—Duke Ellington

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