"O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art."
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"And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady."
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"He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!""
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"All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life."
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"Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson."
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"An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor."
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"I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love."
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"A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination."
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"I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control."
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"I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life."
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"I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14."
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"the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual."
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"Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I’d slice his head off."
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"I cry and pray and try to find the positive or the lesson for my pain."
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"Traveling is like dancing lessons from God."
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"So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget."
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"If things are easy for us, then they are not lessons, but things we already know."
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"The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons."
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