Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, … - Bernard Berenson

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I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Believe, Fear, Miracles, Prayer, Virgin

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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. . . each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Eye, Flower, Spring, Vitality, Wonder

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Average, Doe, Europe, European, Oppressing

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