"The first thought is often the best."
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"Work first, and then rest."
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"Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel."
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"There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision."
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"A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature."
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"All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song."
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"Works of genius are the first things in the world."
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"Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows."
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"Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces."
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"In order to find, you must first search."
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"I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet."
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"Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it."
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"For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me."
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"Whom you would change, you must first love."
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"Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us."
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"The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt."
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"When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure."
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"One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else."
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"Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure."
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"poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing."
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