"Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies."

-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Men Quotes #Sky Quotes #Shining Quotes

“The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.”

Source : John Constable, Anne Gray, Dr, John Gage, Conal Shields, Ann Galbally (2006). “Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky”
“I incorporate different styles that work for me. I could easily change my style depends on my opponent.”
“You get the most approval when you care the least about it.”
“You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.”
“Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.”
“The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.”
“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.”
“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”

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