Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.
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Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on Â… the world of beauty around us.
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Let us shun self-analyzation, self-consciousness, morbidness, affectation, attitudinizing. Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on our brushes and on the world of beauty around us.
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We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.
-- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
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Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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