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~ As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. ~

~ One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable ~

Felix Frankfurter

~ Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. ~

U Thant

~ Want oú compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity. ~

Henry Fielding

~ Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order ~

Sir Francis Bacon

~ Never into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ~

Marshall McLuhan

~ Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem. ~

Hans Hofmann

~ And protect your heart from being inclined toward what you have renounced of people and desires and wishes and option and effort and from losing patience and harmony and pleasure with God at the time of the befalling of calamity. ~

Abdul Qadir Gilani

~ Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. ~

W. Eugene Smith

~ It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. ~

John Sexton

~ There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration ~

Sadakichi Hartmann

~ These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me ~

Ansel Adams

~ Abundance doesn't follow giving until giving becomes its own reward." ~

Jan Denise

~ Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ~

Harrison Ford

~ Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ~

Harrison Ford

~ There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed Arminians, in the doctrine of justification: and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; who often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them ~

Jonathan Edwards

~ Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts ~

Laurence Sterne

~ Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy. ~

Jeremy Taylor

~ I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ~

Dr. Jonas Salk

~ Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. ~

C.E. Lucas-Phillips

~ My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness. ~

Deepak Chopra.

~ The greatest crime since World War II has been United States foreign policy. ~

Ramsey Clark

~ By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. ~

Henry Mitchell

~ The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before ~

Vita Sackville-West

~ All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden ~

Reginald Farrer

~ I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. ~

Celia Thaxter

~ But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head ... The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on ~

Robert Finch, Poet

~ It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. ~

Alexander Herzen

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