"From the first moment I handled my lens……" — Julia Margaret Cameron

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• Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of… — Sun Tzu
• It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old… — Ann Radcliffe
• From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a… — Julia Margaret Cameron
• ...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of… — Unknown Author
• Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with… — Peter Forsyth
• But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by… — Samuel Johnson
• The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the… — Joseph Conrad
• Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer. — John Keats
• The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. — Henry Beston
• The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap… — Samuel Johnson

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