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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special… — Ivan Illich
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides. — Artur Schnabel
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! — Unknown Author
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with… — Henry David Thoreau
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous… — Edmund Burke
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and… — Lord Byron
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize… — Rajneesh
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . .… — Unknown Author
How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably… — William Rothenstein
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the… — Unknown Author
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. — John Henry Newman
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives… — Kenji Miyazawa
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying… — Geoff Hamilton
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. — Walter Scott
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. — Peter Drucker
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even… — Elbert Hubbard
The purpose of art is to stop time. — Bob Dylan
For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. — Lorraine Moller
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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