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“The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.”

Ifs Should May Whole Light Order Sun Objects Shadow Window Shining South Casts Drawing Height Length Vary

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.”

Sun Objects Shining Charity

Author:Confucius

“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.”

Ifs Kind May Persons Said Moments Age Dies Beauty Objects Expression Flower Taste Shining Mere Old Age Features Maturity Sentiments Fades Literal Refined

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.”

Ifs Men Persons Doe Answers Virtue Wise Dog Objects Moon Abuse Shining Envy Clamor Shine On

Book:Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

“If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.”

Ifs Giving Should Wells May States Feelings Heaven Sun Imagine Tree Objects Sweet Flower Eternal Blessed Shining Fruit Golden Silver Orange Loaded Metaphorical Grove Fruition Allusion

Author:Humphry Davy

“Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.”

Enough Light Turns Objects Shining Brave Be Brave

Author:Martha Beck

“Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.”

World Left Perfect Behinds Crime Objects Particular Illusion Shining Resolution Left Behind Disappearance Enigma Almost Perfect Perfect Crime

Book:Fotografien

Source: Fotografien