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Admiration, Joseph Addison

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. - Joseph Addison in Spectator No. 256 (24 December 1711). http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Admiration

Beauty, Sam Levenson

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; Never throw out anybody. Remember, If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly g...

Money, Western Proverb

The love of money is the root of all evil. - Western Proverb 돈을 사랑하는 것이 만악의 뿌리다. - 서양속담

Money, Western proverb

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Western proverb 바보와 그의 돈은 곧 갈라진다. - 서양속담

Education, John Adams

Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Newton and Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study. - John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams (29 October 1775), published Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Vol. 1 (1841), ed. Charles Francis Adams, p. 72. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Education

Belief, Augustine of Hippo

There are three kinds of objects of belief. Some are always believed and never understood, such as all history, which runs through temporal and human acts. Others must be understood to be believed, such as all human reasonings. Thirdly, there are those which must be believed first and understood later, like divine matters. - Augustine of Hippo, Eighty-Three Different Questions (388–395/7), 48 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Belief

Blood, Genesis

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. - Genesis 6:9. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blood