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“To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.”

Mean Has Beens Different Science Understanding Ability Flower Capacity Stones Tasks Ill Sufficient Honour Shells Lowest Newton Unworthy Labourers

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.”

Feelings Moving Water Born My Own Forever Mines Fine Please Shapes Stones Ease Native Tenderness Shells Sensibility Toss Oysters

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.”

May Art Art Is Stones Praise Shells

Book:Works:

Source: Works:

“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Believe Children Bigs Able Faces Bits Sleep Childhood Dog Stones Wake Up Longing Glasses Nostalgia Treasure Sugar Dread Shells Going To Sleep Fear Not Morrow Fear Nothing Maple

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.”

World Feelings Walks Pleasure Tree Materials Stones Woods Touched Shells Clay Copper

Author:Jessica Stockholder

“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

“He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.”

Land Stones Bones Flesh Eggs Shells Beer Drinking Ale Funny Beer Drinking Drinking Toast

Book:A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

Hands Artist Break Figures Stones Transformation Spells Shells Sculpture Marble Sculptors Sculpting Best Artist

Author:Michelangelo

“maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may come home with a smooth rounded stone as small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me) it is always ourselves we find in the sea.”

Source: Hist Whist: And Other Poems for Children

“Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.”

Different Use Form Science Animal Numbers Existence Silence Shapes Mountain Europe Stones Species Vanity Vain Collections Midst Shells Sheer Fossils Naturalist

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.”

“I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.”

Science Rocks Ocean Stones Convinced Observation Substance Sand Shells Clay Spoil Marble Geology Chalk Limes

Book:Natural History, General and Particular

Source: Natural History, General and Particular

“It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.”

Ifs Life Made Hard Reality Would Be Science Sports Water Nature Chance Creative Alive Rocks Creation Shapes Stones Impression Delusion Shells Vague Superficial Mud Creative Power

Author:Agostino Scilla