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Quote by James Nasmyth
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Fou

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. – James Nasmyth

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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. – James Nasmyth

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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – Max Beerbohm

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I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty. – John Wooden

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The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay. – Michel Gondry

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When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place. – Annie Lennox

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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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