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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ↗

— Voltaire

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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. ↗

— James Nasmyth

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If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign. ↗

— Graham Nelson

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The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ↗

— Izaak Walton

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