#sence

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul? ↗

— Richard Corliss

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My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#children #dear #devolved #duty #expanding

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#always #between #cannot #difference #far

The essence of justice is mercy. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#justice #mercy

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#difference #essence #sacrament #use

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#anything #battle #cheerful #confer #effort

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#appreciation #form #good #highest #highest form

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#competition #encourages #his #knocked #out

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#forms #ideal #negation #painting #realism

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ↗