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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#country #different #every #everywhere #politeness

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#friendship #incompatible #other #passions #pity

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#art #harm #joke #raw #receive

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#fruition #happy #hours #more #pass

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#after #building #came #collecting #day

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#big #cannot #expensive #had #happened

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#about #across #come #finding #i

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#form #mentally #once #original #out

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#hardened #liquid #mass #much #part

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#achieve #balance #between #differently #enough