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• Youth is a gift of nature...Middle age is a work of art!
• A mighty work deserves a mighty theme. -- Herman Melville
• Nature is a revelation of God. Art is a revelation of man. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The wind drives across heaven: The image of The Taming Power of the Small.
  Thus the superior man Refines the outward aspect of his nature....
• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
  -- Pliny The Elde...
• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. -- Plato, Law
• Any man can work when every stroke of his hand brings down the fruit rattling from the tree to the ground
  but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement, by the power of truth -- that requires a heroism which is transcendent....
• It takes a mighty good man to be better than none at all.