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Ugliness . Love hides ugliness. {Gaelic. Proverb.}
Ugliness . Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. {Prof. Drummond.}
Ugliness . One man's justice is another man's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point. {Emerson.}
Ugliness . Real ugliness in either sex means always some kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of education. {Ruskin.}
Ulysses . Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher, but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses. {Milton.}
Ulysses . Man, like Ulysses, spends ten years in war and ten in wandering. - Im Leben ist der Mensch zehn Jahre in Kriege {Feuerbach.}
Unbelief . Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones. {Holmes.}
Unbelief . Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it. {St. Augustine.}
Unbelief . Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to {Emerson.}
Unbelief . Scepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. {Emerson.}
 
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Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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