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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

  Kiki Smith

  Animal, Hair, Drawing

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• We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Average, Effort, Excellence

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• The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive.It is the taking by the community for the use of the community of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by nature be attained.

  Henry George

  Fall, Taken, Land

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Race, Needs, Done

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• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  "A Memorable Fancy". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Black And White, Color, Talking

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

  Alf Landon

  Rights, Government, Minorities

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• Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

  Gerald of Wales

  Three, Division, Territory

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• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Music Is, Whole, Universe

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• There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Justice, Feelings, Humanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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• This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hopeful, Direct Approach

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• Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Spiritual, Holy Eucharist, Age

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• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Rich Or Poor, Long

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.135

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• We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Spring, Rain, Mean

  George Perkins Marsh, Stephen C. Trombulak (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, p.186, UPNE

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• The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

  Quintilian

  Obscurity, Incapacity

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• There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

  Thomas Browne

  Order, Giving, Understanding

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Genius, Exhaustion

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• The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Long, Poetry, Pages

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• Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Valuable

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XIV, 1863.

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• A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.152

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• The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Office, Priorities

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 85

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