"The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination."

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Source : MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

Mary Russell Mitford

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“The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.”

Source : The New York Times, December 10, 1916.
“Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.”
“We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.”
“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”
“I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of natureâ€¦our destiny can change.”
“If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.”
“Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“Never fear being alone, because you never are.”

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