One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
LEONARDO DA VINCIAll sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
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Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
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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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There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
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The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
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Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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All thoughts start from emotions.
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Our life is made by the death of others.
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
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Fear arises sooner than anything else.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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