"Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is……" — Thomas Cole
"Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things."
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Thomas Cole
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16 Quotes by Thomas Cole
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Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to…
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence.…
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How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old…
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If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced…
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To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the…
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How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
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If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian…
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The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial…
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The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In…
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Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
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None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a…
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More Amid Quotes
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
— Buffalo Bill
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
— Robert Burns
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from…
— R. H. Tawney
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
— Pliny the Elder
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
— Epicurus
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
— Mason Cooley
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
— William Stanley Jevons
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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