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Think, my friend, think millions of things! Thinking is the Art of God!

Mehmet Murat ildan

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Izaak Walton

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Miguel de Cervantes

Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.

Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist

Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan

Walking isn't a lost art -- one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Evan Esar

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface

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