You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up wit

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. – George Santayana

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The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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