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“A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.”

Way Made Born Stones Made It Gentleman Rough Sculptors

Book:The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

Source: The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

“As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”

Giving Wells Art Soul Grace Stones Lust Treatment Rough Luster

Book:Man and the Gospel

Source: Man and the Gospel

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.”

Shows Hands Artist Can Do Brain Break Stones Rough Spells Shells Marble Superfluous

Book:The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”

I Can Eye Lying Walks Vision Steps Seeing Journey Land Flower Walking Bed Stones Legs Wander Rough Take Me Thank God Hiking Patches Trekking Strolling Cotton Sauntering Bogs

Author:Beatrix Potter

“GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.”

Source: The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems

“I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.”

“I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force...thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.”

Force Huge Stones Corners Contact Rough Smooth Polished Quiver

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real.”

Made Real Eye Felt Sound Perfect Arms Cold Kissing Mouths Stones Bottom Lips Smell Opening His Eyes Rough Swim Throat Fangs Damp Spun

Book:Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

Source: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie