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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
Age: 67 †
Born: 1452
Born: April 15
Died: 1519
Died: May 2
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Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
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There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.
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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
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O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.
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