Samuel Morse Quotes

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• What God Hath Wrought.
• If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted…
• Science and art are not opposed.
• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent,…
• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is…
• Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool...
• The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.
• We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You…
• I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted;…
• Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
• Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.

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