"The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives."
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"I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly."
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"The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second."
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"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
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"Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces."
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"A life well used procures a happy death."
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"Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people."
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"For youth, everything is sport."
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"The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind."
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"To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all."
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"Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals."
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"Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?"
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"Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness."
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"One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself."
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"No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof."
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"The motive power is the cause of all life."
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"The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me."
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"An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it."
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"Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting."
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"Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest."
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