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“I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.”

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose works and ideas had a profound influence on the world. He was a renowned painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, musician, and engineer. more

“The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and says: 'you are a human person: important, mysterious, infinitely precious, what you have to say is important because it flows from a humn person; in you there are those seeds of the infinite, those germs of love... of beauty which must rise from the earth of your misery so humanity be fulfilled. If you do not rise then something will be missing... Rise again because we all need you... be loved beloved.'”

Ifs Needs Humans Looks Persons Doe Important Earth Humanity Missing Judging Flow Infinite Misery Seeds Mysterious Beloved Criticize Fulfilled Comforting Need You Germs

Author:Jean Vanier

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”

Death Poet Misery

Author:William Wordsworth

“I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.”

Writing Play Stories Written

Author:Lena Dunham

“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”

Knows Suffering Know How Praise Misery Merit Contentment Temper

Author:Pietro Aretino

“The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ "in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery . . . and land their souls . . . at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers" (Helaman 3:30) "who have been ever since the world began . . . to go no more out."”

“The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.”

Should Together Moving Causes Rivers Misery Wave Woods Driven Inevitable Parting

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?”

Art Stills Voice Misery Small Voice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.”

Missing Blessing Let Me Misery

Author:Izaak Walton

“Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.”

Men Heaven Sacred Misery Like Me Pity

Book:The Odyssey of Homer

Source: The Odyssey of Homer

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