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Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.”

Mind Heart Form Memories Visible Refrigerators Cupboards Leftovers Old Memories

Author:Thomas Fuller

“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor”

Giving Self Form Growth Interest Crime Favors Distinction Deceit Shocked Wickedness Magnitude Artifice

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

“The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.”

Book Age Form Common Air Revolution Shapes Spread Invisible Innocent Contact Agents Breathing Outlook Epidemics Germs Carrier Contamination

Author:Arthur Koestler

“When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.”

World Mind Ideas Real Reality Form Society Pure Perfection Flight Perceive Delusion Copies Artificial Plato Unbearable Plato S

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.”

Want Hard Eye Faces Form Work Grace Toil Quench

Author:Walter Scott

“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”

Humans Light Form Imagine Color Expression Concern Structure Chaos Envy Painter Torment Restful

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.”

Hands Reality Form Noses Emptiness Grasping

Author:Dalai Lama

“Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.”

Thinking World Form Joy Suffering This World Highest Poison Purity Vow

Author:Dalai Lama

“The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.”

People Form Lines Secret Painting Attraction Interaction Curves Maximum Altered One Line Between The Lines

Author:Pablo Picasso

“From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.”

Art Form Lying Views Point Of View Abstract Concrete Convincing

Book:Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections

“When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.”

Ends Form Pure Eggs Portraits Elimination Portraiture

Author:Pablo Picasso

“No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.”

Ifs Knows Art Form Artist Mistake Doubt Strength No Doubt Recognizing Stimulus Accompany

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.”

Children Form Television Dominant Animation

Author:Annette Funicello

“Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.”

People Form Voice Effort Deeds Engaged

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.”

Form Guilt

Book:British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage

Source: British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage

“A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.”

Men Heart Art Eye Form Brain Art Is Works Of Art Nerves Interiors

Author:Edvard Munch

“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.”

Men Doe Able Form Opinion Painting Judging Listening Ought Faults Refuse Judgement Painting A Picture

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.”

Play Moments Form Enjoy Water Prayer Cat Sight Glasses Caught Sunlight Chill Frost Twigs

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.”

Long Two Eye Form Mystery Divine Paper Size Philosopher Architecture Melody Inches Roof Magnificent Curves Symbolic Grandeur Cathedrals

Book:Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers

Source: Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers

“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”

Men Wells Looks Long Faces Form Voice My Own Tree Rivers Wave Remembered Pleasant Look Up Companion Bronx Old Trees

Book:The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

Source: The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

“Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.”

Form Work

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.”

Knows Mind Hands Form Ocean Ambition Wings Storm Fierce Lightning

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

“Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.”

Art Form Rocks Stones Sculpture

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.”

Knows Form Wonder Rich Hair Devil Dirt Worms Straws Amber

Author:Alexander Pope

“O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!”

Form Women Reflection Nobility

Author:Euripides

“It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.”

Way Reality Age Form Found Photography Surprise Disappear Mediums Technological Disappearance

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.”

Giving Has Beens Able Form Easy Safe Love Life Refuge Amusement

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.”

Whole Form Results Unity Explaining

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.”

Hands Form Given Materials Shapes Impress Mechanic Innate Predetermined

Book:Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

Source: Coleridge's Criticism of Shakespeare

“I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.”

May Form Passion Winning Fountain

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.”

Should Government Form Certain Passion Principles Practice Essentials Bible Guides Occasions Temper

Author:John Quincy Adams

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