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“Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.”
― Sir Joshua Reynolds

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
― Dr. Robert Schuller

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.”
― Winston Graham, Demelza