Samuel Palmer Quotes

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• Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
• A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion
• When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be…
• Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
• Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.
• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm…
• Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to…
• There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep…
• A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

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