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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that…
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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…
— Gerhard Richter
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Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
— Marcus Terentius Varro
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Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
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The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the…
— Romain Rolland
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Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of…
— Jonny Lee Miller
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Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it…
— Seth Godin
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The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by…
— William Cullen Bryant
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