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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same
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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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
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If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it
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In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
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I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.
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A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.
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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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First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.
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If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
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