"The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.207

Edwin Percy Whipple

#Beauty Quotes #Art Quotes #Character Quotes

“Education is the science of relations”
“We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.”

Source : Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.226
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
“Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.”
“Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs”
“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
“Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.”
“The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.”

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