"The course of Nature is the art of…" — Edward Young
"The course of Nature is the art of God."
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55 Quotes by Edward Young
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Too low they build who build below the skies.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
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A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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