"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
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"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."
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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
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"Realize that everything connects to everything else."
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"Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort."
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"Learning never exhausts the mind."
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"An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength."
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"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
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"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
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"I love those who can smile in trouble."
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"I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things."
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"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
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"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
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"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
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"life without love, is no life at all"
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
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"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
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"Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail."
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