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«Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell»
«Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.»
«I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
«The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.»
«Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego»
«I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
«The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone»
«The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.»
Author: Michelangelo | About: Art | Keywords: include, serves, shell, superfluous
«Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.»
«Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once»

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