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• I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.

  Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

  Animal, Men, Organization

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• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Drinking, Breathing, Skills

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

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• Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful!

  Gabriele d'Annunzio

  Men, Space, Air

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• There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is required. Those who fail to live consistently in accord with the Tao reside here. In the upper, Yu Ching, there is only Tao: the bondage of form is broken, and the only thing existing is the exquisite energy dance of the immortal divine beings.

  Laozi

  Broken, Energy, Three

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

  Confucius

  Greatness, Men, Honor

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.2, Delphi Classics

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• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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• A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Pleasure, Amount

  Letter to Alexander Ireland, 2 June 1848, on receiving 'a glorious batch of 'Examiners", in 'The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt' (1862) vol. 2, p. 122

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• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Events, Details, Stories

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

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• Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Sweet, Moon, Night

  Diana Abu-Jaber (2004). “Crescent: A Novel”, p.384, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

  Madeline Tiger Bass

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Sweet

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• It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Spiritual, Daughter, Blessing

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• Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

  Salvador Dali

  Morning, Joy, Wake Up

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• Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sleep, Remember

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• Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!

  Rex Reed

  Writing, Emotional, Rocks

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• I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Love Is, Discovery, Not Sure

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Understanding, Trends, Dynamics

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• There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Home, Life Is, Natural

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• Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Rain, Mountain Ranges, Design

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kindness, Men, Perfect

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• Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Kindness, Voice, Tone

  Lafcadio Hearn (2015). “Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan”, p.39, Routledge

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• What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Spiritual, Real, Giving

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• There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

  Lucas Malet

  Love, Girl, Honesty

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
  Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  Or stand under the trees in the woods,
  Or talk by day with any one I love,
  Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
  Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
  Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
  Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
  What stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Beach, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help others find their own way in their lives. The relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Quilts, Helping Others, Together

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.357, Crown Business

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