"Knowledge is the only elegance."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Knowledge Quotes #Elegance Quotes

“Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.”
“One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.”
“The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.”
“They who see only what they wish to see in those around them are very fortunate.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
“In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.”
“The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.”

Source : JOHN BROWN (1855). “EWXPOSITORY DISCOURSES ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER”, p.98
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”

Source : Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr
“The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.”

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