All I know is that I do not know anything.

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Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

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When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

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There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. ― Edgar Allan Poe

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I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. ― Anne Frank

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