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The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature |
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance. |
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Nothing is really beautiful but truth. |
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Art is long, and time is fleeting. |
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Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist. |
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Quality is better than quantity. |
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Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. |
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. |
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Brevity is the soul of wit. |
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. |
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Greatest genius often lies concealed. |
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That is not good language which all understand not. |
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A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight. |
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. |
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Art lies in concealing art. |
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The highest art is to conceal art. |
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The pen is the tongue of the mind. |
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An artist lives anywhere. |
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He painted a tiger but it turned out a dog. |
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Art improves nature. |
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. |
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. |
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Observation is the best teacher. |
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Knowledge comes from experience alone. |
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Newspapers are the world's mirrors. |
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Experience keeps a dear school |
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A poet is born, not made. |
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No man ever yet became great by imitation |
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A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. |
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The proper study of mankind is man. |
