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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
BERNARD BERENSON

Happiness Humble Intelligence Jobs
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Life Quality Taught
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Concern Men
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
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Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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Affair People Way
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
BERNARD BERENSON

Destiny Fate Men
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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Age Desire Excess

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

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