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Antarctica1 quote
Great God! this is an awful place. — Robert Falcon Scott · 1912
Fame is a food that dead men eat,- I have no stomach for such meat. — Henry Austin Dobson · 1906
Art1 quote
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid, and works its effect itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds · 1774
Beauty1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776
Fame1 quote
Fame is a food that dead men eat,- I have no stomach for such meat. — Henry Austin Dobson · 1906
Harmony1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776
Learning1 quote
The mind is but a barren soil; is a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. — Joshua Reynolds · 1774
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. — Joshua Reynolds · 1769
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. — Joshua Reynolds · 1769
The mind is but a barren soil; is a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. — Joshua Reynolds · 1774
Subtlety1 quote
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid, and works its effect itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds · 1774