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" You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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" The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. "

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" The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. "

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" I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. "

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" Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. "

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" The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. "

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" Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. "

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" Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit. "

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" The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. "

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" He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. "

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" He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. "

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" Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? "

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" As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. "

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" Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. "

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" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

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" Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading. "

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" Nature never breaks her own laws. "

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" The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances. "

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" Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. "

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" Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. "

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" To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. "

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" Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. "

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" I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. "

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" How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting. "

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" Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. "

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" Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. "

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" Life well spent is long. "

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" Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. "

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" Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. "

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" The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. "

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