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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."
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"Clear skies do not promise rain."
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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."
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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."
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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."
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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."
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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
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"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
Imagination

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
Intelligence

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
Dream

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
Faith

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
Cause

"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
Nature

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."
Friendship

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
Poetry
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