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Quote by James Whistler
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. – Georg Cantor

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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. – Samuel Richardson

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Adults are always so busy with the dull and dusty affairs of life which have nothing to do with grass, trees, and running streams. – The Little Grey Men by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford), 1942

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