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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: education, schooling, university
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “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.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: animal-rights, animals, murder, vegetarianism
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: comfort, loneliness, solitude, strength
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “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”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: learning
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “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 DaVinci
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    Tony Evans
    “Unity is not uniformity; unity is oneness of purpose.”
    ― Tony Evans, Horizontal Jesus
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    Seamus Heaney
    “And a young prince must be prudent like that,
    giving freely while his father lives
    so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts
    steadfast companions will stand by him
    and hold the line.”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
    tags: beowulf, gifts, leadership, seamus-heaney
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    Seamus Heaney
    “Meanwhile, the sword
    began to wilt into gory icicles,
    to slather and thaw. It was a wonderful thing,
    the way it all melted as ice melts
    when the Father eases the fetters off the frost
    and unravels the water-ropes. He who wields power
    over time and tide: He is the true Lord.”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
    tags: sword
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    Seamus Heaney
    “Over the waves, with the wind behind her and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird until her curved prow had covered the distance...”
    ― Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    John Milton
    “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: companionship, privacy, solitude
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    John Milton
    “Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    John Milton
    “What is dark within me, illumine.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: art, art-lovers, artist, artists, arts-and-humanities, artsy, creativity, eye-of-the-beholder, humanities, interpretation, interpretation-of-art, opinion, viewpoints
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    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
    ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
    tags: christmas
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    “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ”
    ― Mary Ellen Chase
    tags: attitude, christmas, inspiration
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family
    tags: bethlehem, christmas, jesus-christ, nativity
    246 likes

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  • #28
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
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    Ernst F. Schumacher
    “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
    ― E.F. Schumacher
    tags: complexity, elegance, genius, inspirational, simplicity, violence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: goodness, simplicity, truth
    1051 likes



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