#delicate

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#heart #human #human heart #infinitely #mechanical

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. ↗

— Miriam Beard

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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#come #delicate #drowned #easily #everyday

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how. ↗

— Holly Near

#been #best #delicate #entertainer #good

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ↗

— Ovid

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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#chips #delicate #esteem #high #hold

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ↗

— Josh Billings

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