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There Is But One Poetry,--true Poetry.

A Leaf That Is Destined To Grow Large Is Full Of Grooves And Wrinkles At The Start. Now If One Has No Patience And Wants It Smooth Offhand Like A Willow Leaf, There Is Trouble Ahead.

We Are Forced To Participate In The Games Of Life Before We Can Possibly Learn How To Use The Options In The Rules Governing Them.

He Alone Deserves Liberty And Life Who Daily Must Win Them Anew.

The Style Of Writing Required In The Great World Is Distinguished By A Free And Daring Grace, A Careless Security, A Fine And Sharp Polish, A Delicate And Perfect Taste; While That Fitted For The People Is Characterized By A Vigorous Natural Fulness, A Profound Depth Of Feeling, And An Engaging Naivete.

It Is A Great Pleasure To Transport One's-self Into The Spirit Of The Times; To See How A Wise Man Has Thought Before Us, And To What A Glorious Height We Have At Last Carried It.

In All Things, To Serve From The Lowest Station Upwards Is Necessary. To Restrict Yourself To A Trade Is Best. For The Narrow Mind, Whatever He Attempts Is Still A Trade; For The Higher, An Art; And The Highest In Doing One Thing Does All, Or, To Speak Less Paradoxically, In The One Thing Which He Does Rightly He Sees The Likeness Of All That Is Done Rightly.

Waste Not A Day In Vain Digression; With Resolute, Courageous Trust Seek Every Possible Impression And Make It Firmly Your Posession You'll Then Work On Because You Must.

We Eagerly Get Hold Of A Law That Serves As A Weapon To Our Passions.

Colour Itself Is A Degree Of Darkness.

It Is Only In Misery That We Recognize The Hand Of God Leading Good Men To Good.

The Day Is Committed To Error And Floundering; Success And Achievement Are Matters Of Long Range.

One Must Ask Children And Birds How Cherries And Strawberries Taste.

As Man Is, So Is His God. And Thus Is God Oft Strangely Odd.

Ah! My Poor Brain Is Racked And Crazed, My Spirit And Senses Amazed!

The Greatest Genius Will Not Be Worth Much If He Pretends To Draw Exclusively From His Own Resources

I Hate All Bungling As I Do Sin, But Particularly Bungling In Politics, Which Leads To The Misery And Ruin Of Many Thousands And Millions Of People.

We Often Feel That We Lack Something, And Seem To See That Very Quality In Someone Else, Promptly Attributing All Our Own Qualities To Him Too, And A Kind Of Ideal Contentment As Well. And So The Happy Mortal Is A Model Of Complete Perfection--which We Have Ourselves Created.

Divide And Rule, A Sound Motto. Unite And Lead, A Better One.

Yes! To This Thought I Hold With Firm Persistence; The Last Result Of Wisdom Stamps It True; He Only Earns His Freedom And Existence Who Daily Conquers Them Anew.

I Laugh At My Heart, And Do Its Will

[nature's] Crown Is Love. Only Through Love Can We Come Near Her. She Puts Gulfs Between All Things, And All Things Strive To Be Interfused. She Isolates Everything, That She May Draw Everything Together. With A Few Draughts From The Cup Of Love She Repays For A Life Full Of Trouble.

That Which Is Eternal In Woman Lifts Us Above.

It Is Always A Sign Of An Unproductive Time When It Concerns Itself With Petty And Technical Aspects [in Philology], And Likewiseit Is A Sign Of An Unproductive Person To Pursue Such Trifles.

Plunge Boldly Into The Thick Of Life!

If You Wish A Wise Answer, You Must Put A Rational Question.

Only He Who Finds Empiricism Irksome Is Driven To Method.

Ambition And Love Are The Wings Of Great Actions.

You Accuse A Woman Of Wavering Affections, But Don't Blame Her; She Is Just Looking For A Consistent Man.

Science Has Been Seriously Retarded By The Study Of What Is Not Worth Knowing And Of What Is Not Knowable.

One Usually Thinks People To Be More Dangerous Than They Are.

I Am Fully Convinced That The Soul Is Indestructible, And Its Activity Will Continue Through Eternity.

Give Me Those Days With Heart In Riot, The Depths Of Bliss That Touched On Pain, The Force Of Hate, And Love's Disquiet- Ah, Give Me Back My Youth Again!

Let Us Live In As Small A Circle As We Will, We Are Either Debtors Or Creditors Before We Have Had Time To Look Around.

He Who Does Not Expect A Million Readers Should Not Write A Line.

Lamps Make Oil-spots And Candles Need Snuffing; It Is Only The Light Of Heaven That Shines Pure And Leaves No Stain.

Men Are Much More Apt To Agree In What They Do Than In What They Think.

People Can Only Live With Their Equals, And Not Even With Them; For In The Long Run They Cannot Tolerate That Someone Is Their Equal.

A Joy Shared Is A Joy Doubled.

All Sects Seem To Me To Be Right In What They Assert, And Wrong In What They Deny.

Plunge Boldly Into The Thick Of Life, And Seize It Where You Will, It Is Always Interesting.

Then To The Depths! - I Could As Well Say Height: It's All The Same.

Our Earthly Ball A Peopled Garden.

But The Valid Issue Is The Extent To Which Man Knows How To Form And Master The Material At His Command.

Come My Little One, And Give Me Your Hand.

The Unnatural, That Too Is Natural.

Try Novelties For Salesman's Bait, For Novelty Wins Everyone.

Humor Is One Of The Elements Of Genius--admirable As An Adjunct; But As Soon As It Becomes Dominant, Only A Surrogate For Genius.

A Phenomenon Like Mozart Remains An Inexplicable Thing.

Die Mathematiker Sind Eine Art Franzosen. Spricht Man Zu Ihnen, So übersetzen Sie Alles In Ihre Eigene Sprache, Und So Wird Es Alsobald Etwas Ganz Anderes. Mathematicians Are A Kind Of Frenchmen. Whenever You Say Anything Or Talk To Them, They Translate It Into Their Own Language, And Right Away It Is Something Completely Different.

The Absence Of Temptation Is The Absence Of Virtue.

Life Belongs To The Living, And He Who Lives Must Be Prepared For Changes.

Human Life-everybody Lives It, But Only To A Few Is It Known.

That Which Thy Fathers Have Bequeathed To Thee, Earn It Anew If Thou Wouldst Possess It.

We Don't Get To Know People When They Come To Us; We Must Go To Them To Find Out What They Are Like.

A Teacher Who Can Arouse A Feeling For One Single Good Action, For One Single Good Poem, Accomplishes More Than He Who Fills Our Memory With Rows And Rows Of Natural Objects, Classified With Name And Form.

One Glance, One Word From You Gives More Pleasure Than All The Wisdom Of This World.

The Connoisseur Of Art Must Be Able To Appreciate What Is Simply Beautiful, But The Common Run Of People Is Satisfied With Ornament.

Those Who Make Use Of Devotion As A Means And End Generally Are Hypocrites.

To The World You Might Be One Person, But To One Person, You Might Be The World. Kindness Is The Golden Chain By Which Our World Is Bound Together.

Great Possessions And Great Want Of Them Are Both Strong Temptations.

When We See The Many Grave-stones Which Have Fallen In, Which Have Been Defaced By The Footsteps Of The Congregation, Which Lie Buried Under The Ruins Of The Churches, That Have Themselves Crumbled Together Over Them; We May Fancy The Life After Death To Be As A Second Life, Into Which Man Enters In The Figure, Or The Picture Or The Inscription, And Lives Longer There Than When He Was Really Alive. But This Figure Also, This Second Existence, Dies Out Too, Sooner Or Later. Time Will Not Allow Himself To Be Cheated Of His Rights With The Monuments Of Men Or With Themselves.

Impotent Hatred Is The Most Horrible Of All Emotions; One Should Hate Nobody Whom One Cannot Destroy.

Culture Which Smooth The Whole World Licks, Also Unto The Devil Sticks.

Few Men Have Imagination Enough For Reality.

When Two Men Quarrel, Who Owns The Cooler Head Is The More To Blame.

The Mind Is Found Most Acute And Most Uneasy In The Morning. Uneasiness Is, Indeed, A Species Of Sagacity - A Passive Sagacity. Fools Are Never Uneasy.

I Have Found Among My Papers A Sheet . . . In Which I Call Architecture Frozen Music.

To Understand One Thing Well Is Better Than Understanding Many Things By Halves.

Gifts Come From Above In Their Own Peculiar Forms. [ger., Die Gaben Kommen Von Oben Herab, In Ihren Eignen Gestalten.]

Our Mistakes And Failures Are Always The First To Strike Us, And Outweigh In Our Imagination What We Have Accomplished And Attained.

The Mortal Race Is Far Too Weak Not To Grow Dizzy On Unwonted Brights.

If A Man Knows Where To Get Good Advice, It Is As Though He Could Supply It Himself.

What Chance Gathers, She Easily Scatters. A Great Person Attracts Great People And Knows How To Hold Them Together.

It Is Ever True That He Who Does Nothing For Others, Does Nothing For Himself." ~ Goethe

Tolerance Comes Of Age. I See No Fault Committed That I Myself Could Not Have Committed At Some Time Or Other.

On The Pinnacle Of Success Man Does Not Stand Firm Long.

I Believe In God And In Nature And In The Triumph Of Good Over Evil.

It Is Said, That No One Is A Hero To Their Butler. The Reason Is, That It Requires A Hero To Recognize A Hero. The Butler, However, Will Probably Know Well How To Estimate His Equals.

Hatred Is Active Displeasure, Envy Passive. We Need Not Wonder That Envy Turns To Soon To Hatred.

The Mob Has Nothing To Lose, Everything To Gain.

Nothing To Lose

It Is Belief In The Bible, The Fruits Of Deep Meditation, Which Has Served Me As The Guide Of My Moral And Literary Life. I Have Found Capital Safely Invested And Richly Productive Of Interest, Although I Have Sometimes Made But A Bad Use Of It.

For The Nature Of Women Is Closely Allied To Art

The Iron Hand Of Necessity Commands, And Her Stern Decree Is Supreme Law, To Which The Gods Even Must Submit. In Deep Silence Rules The Uncounselled Sister Of Eternal Fate. Whatever She Lays Upon Thee, Endure; Perform Whatever She Commands.

Painting Predicates What Man Wants To See, And What Man Ought To See, Not What He Ordinarily Sees.

Stones Are Mute Teachers; They Silence The Observer, And The Most Valuable Lesson We Learn From Them We Cannot Communicate.

No Wise Combatant Underestimates Their Antagonist.

Superstition Is A Part Of The Very Being Of Humanity; And When We Fancy That We Are Banishing It Altogether, It Takes Refuge In The Strangest Nooks And Corners, And Then Suddenly Comes Forth Again, As Soon As It Believes Itself At All Safe.

One Errs As Long As One Strives.

There Is No Way To Face The Great Advantages Of Another Person Than Through Love.

The Solution Of Every Problem Is Another Problem

Character Calls Forth Character.

Doubt Grows With Knowledge.

People Are Always Talking About Originality; But What Do They Mean? As Soon As We Are Born, The World Begins To Work Upon Us; And This Goes On To The End. And After All, What Can We Call Our Own, Except Energy, Strength, And Will? If I Could Give An Account Of All That I Owe To Great Predecessors And Contemporaries, There Would Be But A Small Balance In My Favor.

As A Man Is, So Is His God; Therefore God Was So Often An Object Of Mockery. [ger., Wie Einer Ist, So Ist Sein Gott, Darum Ward Gott So Oft Zu Spott.]

Willing Is Not Enough, We Must Do.

Wine Rejoices The Heart Of Man And Joy Is The Mother Of All Virtues.

This Is What They All Come To Who Exclusively Harp On Experience. They Do Not Stop To Consider That Experience Is Only One Half Of Experience.

Some Of Our Weaknesses Are Born In Us, Others Are The Result Of Education; It Is A Question Which Of The Two Gives Us Most Trouble.

Against Criticism A Man Can Neither Protest Nor Defend Himself; He Must Act In Spite Of It, And Then It Will Gradually Yield To Him.

Man Is Not Born To Solve The Problem Of The Universe, But To Find Out What He Has To Do; And To Restrain Himself Within The Limits Of His Comprehension.

There Is No Patriotic Art.

When You Are In Conflict With Someone, There Is One Factor That Can Make The Difference Between Damaging Your Relationship And Deepening It. That Factor Is Attitude. We Don't Get To Know People When They Come To Us; We Must Go To Them To Find Out What They Are Like.

The Church Alone Beyond All Question Has For Ill-gotten Goods The Right Digestion.

A Man Should Hear A Little Music, Read A Little Poetry, And See A Fine Picture Every Day Of His Life, In Order That Worldly Cares May Not Obliterate The Sense Of The Beautiful Which God Has Implanted In The Human Soul.

Nobody, They Say, Is A Hero To His Valet. Of Course; For A Man Must Be A Hero To Understand A Hero. The Valet, I Dare Say, Has Great Respect For Some Person Of His Own Stamp.

In Politics As On A Sickbed Men Toss From Side To Side In Hope Of Lying More Comfortably.

If It Is The Greatest Truth That You Seek, The Plants Can Direct You.

Viewed From The Summit Of Reason, All Life Looks Like A Malignant Disease And The World Like A Madhouse.

He Loves Not Who Does Not See The Faults Of The Beloved As Virtues.

Art Is Long, Life Short, Judgment Difficult, Opportunity Transient. To Act Is Easy, To Think Is Hard; To Act According To Our Thought Is Troublesome. Every Beginning Is Cheerful: The Threshold Is The Place Of Expectation.

People May Live As Much Retired From The World As They Please; But Sooner Or Later, Before They Are Aware, They Will Find Themselves Debtor Or Creditor To Somebody.

The Old Lose One Of The Greatest Privileges Of Man, For They Are No Longer Judged By Their Contemporaries.

Unlike Grown Ups, Children Have Little Need To Deceive Themselves.

Sweet Moonlight, Shining Full And Clear, Why Do You Light My Torture Here? How Often Have You Seen Me Toil, Burning Last Drops Of Midnight Oil. On Books And Papers As I Read, My Friend, Your Mournful Light You Shed. If Only I Could Flee This Den And Walk The Mountain-tops Again, Through Moonlit Meadows Make My Way, In Mountain Caves With Spirits Play - Released From Learning's Musty Cell, Your Healing Dew Would Make Me Well!

And I Have Again Observed, My Dear Friend, In This Trifling Affair, That Misunderstandings And Neglect Occasion More Mischief In The World Than Even Malice And Wickedness. At All Events, The Two Latter Are Of Less Frequent Occurrence.

Habit Is The Most Imperious Of All Masters.

It Seems To Never Occur To Fools That Merit And Good Fortune Are Closely United.

We Are Shaped And Fashioned By What We Love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I Never Knew How To Worship Until I Knew How To Love.

Life's Objective Is Life Itself.

The Bible Grows More Beautiful, As We Grow In Our Understanding Of It.

The Way You See People Is The Way You Treat Them, And The Way You Treat Them Is What They Become.

Words Are Mere Sound And Smoke, Dimming The Heavenly Light.

The Older We Grow, The Greater Become The Ordeals.

All Things Are Only Transitory.

The Main Thing Is To Have A Soul That Loves The Truth And Harbours It Where He Finds It. And Another Thing: Truth Requires Constant Repetition, Because Error Is Being Preached About Us All The Time, And Not Only By Isolated Individuals But By The Masses. In The Newspapers And Encyclopedias, In Schools And Universities, Everywhere Error Rides High And Basks In The Consciousness Of Having The Majority On Its Side.

Man Errs, Till He Has Ceased To Strive.

He Who Has A Task To Perform Must Know How To Take Sides, Or He Is Quite Unworthy Of It.

Truth Is A Torch, But A Terrific One; Therefore We All Try To Reach It With Closed Eyes, Lest We Should Be Scorched.

Alas, That We Should Be So Unwilling To Listen To The Still And Holy Yearnings Of The Heart! A God Whispers Quite Softly In Our Breast, Softly Yet Audibly; Telling Us What We Ought To Seek And What To Shun.

Man Cannot Persist Long In A Conscious State, He Must Throw Himself Back Into The Unconscious, For His Root Lives There.

Certain Faults Are Necessary For The Existence Of The Individual. We Would Resent It If Old Friends Were To Get Rid Of Certain Peculiarities.

The Present Is A Powerful Deity. [ger., Die Gegenwart Ist Eine Machtige Gottin.]

Of The Book Of Books Most Wondrous Is The Tender Book Of Love.

But What Is Your Duty? What The Day Demands. [ger., Was Aber Ist Deine Pflicht? Die Forderung Des Tages.]

Can A Sparrow Know How A Stork Feels?

One Never Goes So Far As When One Doesn't Know Where One Is Going.

It Is Equally A Mistake To Hold One's Self Too High, Or To Rate One's Self Too Cheap.

Daily Life Is More Instructive Than The Most Effective Book.

Everyone Believes In His Youth That The World Really Began With Him, And That All Merely Exists For His Sake.

If I Work Incessantly To The Last, Nature Owes Me Another Form Of Existence When The Present One Collapses.

A Great Scholar Is Seldom A Great Philosopher.

Great Philosophers

Poetry Is The Universal Possession Of Mankind, Revealing Itself Everywhere, And At All Times, In Hundreds And Hundreds Of Men.

Beware Of Wishing For Anything In Youth, Because You Will Get It In Middle Age.

Love And Desire Are The Spirit's Wings To Great Deeds.

All That Is Noble Is In Itself Of A Quiet Nature, And Appears To Sleep Until It Is Aroused And Summoned Forth By Contrast.

The Sun Had, In The Meanwhile, Sunk Behind The Ettersberg. We Felt In The Wood The Chill Of The Evening, And Drove All The Quicker To Wiemar, And To Goethe's House. Goethe Urged Me To Go In With Him For A While, And I Did So. He Was In An Extremely Engaging Mood. He Talked A Great Deal About His Theory Of Colors, And Of His Obstinate Opponents; Remarking That He Was Sure That He Had Done Something In This Science.

Women Are Silver Dishes Into Which We Put Golden Apples.

Alas! How Much There Is In Education, And In Our Social Institutions, To Prepare Us And Our Children For Insanity.

A State Of True And Universal Tolerance Is Best Ensured By Leaving Alone The Peculiarities Of Men And Peoples.

What Government Is The Best? That Which Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves. [ger., Welche Regierung Die Beste Sei? Diejenige Die Uns Lehrt Uns Selbst Zu Regieren.]

The Best Way To Understand A Painting Is By Drawing It.

The Evil One Has Left, The Evil Ones Remain.

The Use Of A Thing Is Only A Part Of Its Significance. To Know Anything Thoroughly, To Have The Full Command Of It In All Its Appliances, We Must Study It On Its Own Account, Independently Of Any Special Application.

Reason Looks At Necessity As The Basis Of The World; Reason Is Able To Turn Chance In Your Favor And Use It. Only By Having Reasonremain Strong And Unshakable Can We Be Called A God Of The Earth.

The World Only Goes Forward Because Of Those Who Oppose It.

Mathematics Can Remove No Prejudices And Soften No Obduracy. It Has No Influence In Sweetening The Bitter Strife Of Parties, And In The Moral World Generally Its Action Is Perfectly Null.

Giving Is The Business Of The Rich.

Do You Want To Live Happily? Travel With Two Bags, One For Giving, The Other For Receiving.

Why Should We Not Recognize In The Lightning, The Thunder, And The Storm Wind, The Approach Of An Overwhelming Power, And In The Scent Of Flowers And The Gently Rustling Zephyr The Presence Of A Being Full Of Love?

The Day Of Fortune Is Like A Harvest Day, We Must Be Busy When The Corn Is Ripe. [ger., Ein Tag Der Gunst Ist Wie Ein Tag Der Ernte, Man Muss Geschaftig Sein Sobald Sie Reift.]

To Be Pleased With One's Limits Is A Wretched State.

Knowing Who You Are

My Counsel Is, To Force Nothing, And Rather To Trifle And Sleep Away All Unproductive Days And Hours, Than On Such Days To Compose Something That Will Afterwards Give No Pleasure.

If Only These Treasures Were Not So Fragile As They Are Precious And Beautiful.

On All The Peaks Lies Peace.

Beware Of Her Fair Hair, For She Excels All Women In The Magic Of Her Locks; And When She Winds Them Round A Young Man's Neck, She Will Not Ever Set Him Free Again.

Battle Not With Monsters, For Then You Become One.

Man Can Only Endure A Certain Degree Of Unhappiness; What Is Beyond That Either Annihilates Him Or Passes By Him And Leaves Him Apathetic

Mystery Is Truth's Dancing Partner.

Gray Is The Color Of All Theory

Happy Is It, Indeed, For Me That My Heart Is Capable Of Feeling The Same Simple And Innocent Pleasure As The Peasant Whose Table Is Covered With Food Of His Own Rearing, And Who Not Only Enjoys His Meal, But Remembers With Delight The Happy Days And Sunny Mornings When He Planted It, The Soft Evenings When He Watered It, And The Pleasure He Experienced In Watching Its Daily Growth.

Nothing Tells More About The Character Of A Man Than The Things He Makes Fun Of.

To Know Of Someone Here And There Whom We Accord With, Who Is Living On With Us, Even In Silence - - This Makes Our Earthly Ball A Peopled Garden.

Nothing Is More Damaging To The Truth Than An Old Error.

The Summit Charms Us, The Steps To It Do Not; With The Heights Before Our Eyes, We Like To Linger In The Plain. It Is Only A Part Of Art That Can Be Taught; But The Artist Needs The Whole. He Who Is Only Half Instructed Speaks Much And Is Always Wrong; Who Knows It Wholly Is Content With Acting And Speaks Seldom Or Late.

The Century Is Advanced, But Every Individual Begins Afresh.

Unrest And Uncertainty Are Our Lot.

Should I Not Be Proud, When For Twenty Years I Have Had To Admit To Myself That The Great Newton And All The Mathematicians And Noble Calculators Along With Him Were Involved In A Decisive Error With Respect To The Doctrine Of Color, And That I Among Millions Was The Only One Who Knew What Was Right In This Great Subject Of Nature?

Good Children's Literature Appeals Not Only To The Child In The Adult, But To The Adult In The Child.

Rest Not Life Is Sweeping By Go And Dare Before You Die. Something Mighty And Sublime, Leave Behind To Conquer Time.

No, No! The Devil Is An Egotist, And Is Not Apt, Without Why Or Wherefore, "for God's Sake," Others To Assist. [ger., Nein, Nein! Der Teufel Ist Ein Egoist Und Thut Nicht Leicht Um Gottes Willen, Was Einem Andern Nutzlich Ist.]

We Blame Equally Him Who Is Too Proud To Put A Proper Value On His Own Merit And Him Who Prizes Too Highly His Spurious Worth.

Correction Does Much, But Encouragement Does More. Encouragement After Censure Is As The Sun After A Shower.

Whatever Necessity Lays Upon Thee, Endure; Whatever She Commands, Do.

All That Is Alive Tends Toward Color, Individuality, Specificity, Effectiveness And Opacity. All That Is Done With Life Inclines Toward Knowledge, Abstraction, Generality Transfiguration And Transparency.

It Makes No Good To Point The Failures Out Without Showing At The Same Time The Remedy To Address Them.

To Me The External Existence Of My Soul Is Proved From My Idea Of Activity. If I Work Incessantly Until My Death, Nature Will Give Me Another Form Of Existence When The Present Can No Longer Sustain My Spirit.

A Plant Is Like A Self-willed Man, Out Of Whom We Can Obtain All Which We Desire, If We Will Only Treat Him His Own Way.

I Have Possessed That Heart, That Noble Soul, In Whose Presence I Seemed To Be More Than I Really Was, Because I Was All That I Could Be.

How Can We Learn Self-knowledge? Never By Taking Thought But Rather By Action. Try To Do Your Duty And You'll Soon Discover What You're Like.

Love, Whose Power Youth Feels, Is Not Suitable For The Elderly, Just As Little As Anything That Presupposes Productivity. It Is Rare That Productivity Lasts Through The Years.

Architecture Is Frozen Music. [ger., Die Backunst Ist Eine Erstarrte Musik.]

Thou Must (in Commanding And Winning, Or Serving And Losing, Suffering Or Triumphing) Be Either Anvil Or Hammer.

A Correct Answer Is Like An Affectionate Kiss.

Slap In The Face

To Become Aware In Time When Young Of The Advantages Of Age; To Maintain The Advantages Of Youth In Old Age: Both Are Pure Fortune.

Love Grants In A Moment What Toil Can Hardly Acheive In An Age.

If You Want To Understand Poetry, You Have To Go To Its Origin, If You Want To Understand The Poet, You Have To Go To The Poet's Home.

We Can Offer Up Much In The Large, But To Make Sacrifices In Little Things Is What We Are Seldom Equal To.

Man Can Find No Better Retreat From The World Than Art, And Man Can Find No Stronger Link With The World Than Art.

On Top Of The World, Or In The Depths Of Despair.

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