"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands."
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"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
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"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."
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"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
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"Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished."
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"Reality is a sliding door."
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"Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings."
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude."
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"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains."
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"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth."
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"Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried."
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."
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"We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns."
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"Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist."
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"Man is a piece of the universe made alive"
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"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."
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"A man is a god in ruins."
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"Each moment of the year has its own beauty."
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"Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim."
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"And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster."
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