#essence

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗

— Morris Graves

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