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• How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

  Ernest Henry Wilson

  Life, Art, Garden

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• Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Beauty, Art, Design

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• And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

  John Milton

  Garden, Leisure, Pleasure

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 49

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• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

  Maya Angelou

  Time, Children, War

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going to add [the] before the word sport since I thought was either a typo or a problem translating what she said, but then I thought it made sense without it too , so I left it as is. Just know that that's not a typo on my part.

  Svetlana Khorkina

  Sports, Gymnastics, Discipline

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• Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Suicide, Years

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• Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Oct 10, 2013

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• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Anger, Wine, Order

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• The secret to success is... is no secret. It's called work your Ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples lives than anyone else does!

  Tony Robbins

  Success, Work, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 17, 2011

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• Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.

  Ralphie May

  Jesus, Mean, Math

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• To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Hatred, Enemy

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Goodbye, Farewell

  Baltimore Evening Sun, June 12, 1922.

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• The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

  Marcel Proust

  Beauty, Loss, Acquisition

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.965, Jester House Publishing

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• Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Truth, Honesty, Half

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

  Max Lerner

  Knowledge, Men, Skills

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• But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Religious, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.427, Library of America

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• While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Prayer, Fear, Believe

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• Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Giving, Atmosphere

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Mean, Compassion

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• There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

  Mike Figgis

  Sadness, Thinking, Giving

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Example, Want, Virtue

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• Supplements are very important, especially a multiple vitamin. The American Medical Association now says we should take one. And fish oil because it has omega 3 fatty acids and they have been found to lower depression, dementia, ADD, and people who kill themselves. So fish oil supplements; I have been taking them for years, I actually scanned my brain before and after and it's better.

  Daniel Amen

  Health, Years, Fatty Acids

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• The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Inspirational Life, Goes On, Daily Work

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