"Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life."

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Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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“But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.”
“Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.”
“I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.”
“Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.”
“Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.”
“Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.”
“Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.”
“The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.”

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