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“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

“Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.”

Love War Hands Passion Energy Love Is Weakness Mere Punishment Vanity Poison Ruined Idleness Defence Alchemist Caress Credulity Indebted Spaniels

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.”

Two Order Culture Energy Ability Quality Promise Mere Brilliant Mortals Mere Mortals

Author:Margaret Mead

“Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.”

Mind Humans Energy Imagination Emotion Healthy Mere Intellect Reasoning Proportion Faculty Human Mind Vigorous Grotesque Hardened Eminence

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.”

Kind May Individual Energy Perfect Perfection Mere Granted Obedience Fairness Restraint License Exhibits Subjugation

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.”

Firsts Children Stills Energy Parent Hurt Existence Attention Wonder Struggle Mere Disappointment Accomplishment Approval Sibling Me Alone Rivalry Alone Time Sibling Rivalry

Author:Adele Faber

“People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.”

People Values Next Energy Taught Intellectual Mere Cleverness Value Of Life

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley