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- Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
- Kimon Nicolaides
- To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
- Author Unknown
- Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
- William Dean Howells
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
- Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Ben Johnson
- In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
- Edwin P. Whipple
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