The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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[Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The style is the man.
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read his own dark heart. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON A pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
And may be found too in an oyster shell. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow
plenty of time for the measure. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the m... GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is hav... GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds a... THEODORE MUNGERS Nothing had ever been so welcome by its absence. DAN SIMMONS Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), wh... 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Genius is only patience.
[Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.] GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON The style is the man himself GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
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sword.
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LOUIS KRONENBERGER The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek ... LOUIS BINSTOCK There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that whe... LOUIS KRONENBERGER Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the ... LOUIS L'AMOUR Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring... LOUIS KRONENBERGER Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. LOUIS L'AMOUR Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriou... LOUIS KAPLAN There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles LOUIS L'AMOUR Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our lo... LOUIS UNTERMEYER When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure. LOUIS BINSTOCK Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfacto... LOUIS BINSTOCK Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads ... LOUIS BINSTOCK From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride, And when at last... LOUIS UNTERMEYER Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. LOUIS PASTEUR There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. LOUIS XIV It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. LOUIS KOSSUTH Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again a... LOUIS L'AMOUR Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity. LOUIS PASTEUR In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. LOUIS KRONENBERGER What is forgiven is usually well remembered. LOUIS DUDEK One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so muc... LOUIS KRONENBERGER Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically system... LOUIS ARAGON O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, n... LOUIS ARAGON There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. LOUIS ARAGON I cannot afford to waste my time making money. LOUIS AGASSIZ It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. LOUIS DEBONNAIRE Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania f... LOUIS ARAGON Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an obliviou... LOUIS ARAGON Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled o... LOUIS ARAGON There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the ... LOUIS DUDEK In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. LOUIS PASTEUR What we play is life. LOUIS ARMSTRONG There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. LOUIS ARMSTRONG There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to fla... LOUIS ARAGON The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. LOUIS ARAGON We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. LOUIS ARAGON In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who lo... LOUIS CASSELS The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit ... LOUIS ARAGON