"Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?"
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"Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best."
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"We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause."
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"No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way."
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"First be a good animal."
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"The finest poetry was first experience."
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"Power is the first good."
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"Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means."
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"I honor health as the first Muse."
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"At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana."
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"You have to first experience what you want to express"
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"What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting."
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"The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water."
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"The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles."
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"You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first."
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"The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered."
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"If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science."
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"All history was at first oral."
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"A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion."
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"In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected."
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