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“It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.”
-- George Santayana
#Friendship #Sight #Giving
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“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.”
-- George Santayana
#Motivational #Perseverance #Courage
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“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
-- George Santayana
#Graduation #Wisdom #Diversity
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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-- George Santayana
#Past #History #Remember
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“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
-- George Santayana
#Happiness #Work #Character
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“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
-- George Santayana
#Dream #Art #Design
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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
-- George Santayana
#Inspirational #Life #Birthday
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“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
-- George Santayana
#Love #Positive #Happiness
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“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
-- George Santayana
#Love #Death #Philosopher
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“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
-- George Santayana
#Happiness #Success #Education
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“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
-- George Santayana
#Vision #Quickness
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“The earth has music for those who listen.”
-- George Santayana
#Music #Encouragement #Art
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“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
-- George Santayana
#Education #Teacher #Children
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“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
-- George Santayana
#Military #War #Philosophical
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“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”
-- George Santayana
#Taken #Passion #World
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“Depression is rage spread thin.”
-- George Santayana
#Depression #Depressing #Pain
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“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”
-- George Santayana
#Inspirational #Life #Philosophical
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“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
-- George Santayana
#Order #Names #Confusion
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“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
-- George Santayana
#Happiness #Happy #Determination
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“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
-- George Santayana
#Sleep #Men #Hair
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“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
-- George Santayana
#Marriage #Patience #Appreciate
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“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
-- George Santayana
#Future #Past #Welcome
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“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.”
-- George Santayana
#Life #Soul #Welcome
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“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
-- George Santayana
#Wisdom #Words Of Wisdom #Disillusionment
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“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
-- George Santayana
#Revenge #Passion #Thinking
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“It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.”
-- George Santayana
#Wells #Pleasant
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“Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”
-- George Santayana
#Integrity #Character #Destiny
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“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
-- George Santayana
#Vanity #Reputation #Fame
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“Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.”
-- George Santayana
#Time #Achieve #Form
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“Habit is stronger than reason.”
-- George Santayana
#Smoking #Stronger #Reason
