Bernard Berenson Quotes
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
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England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.
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And it feels like, finally.
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Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out in a mainstream way is almost psychotic.
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The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of securing the estates of the monasteries for the Crown, it accomplished. Its ostensible purpose, fortified by a wealth of hypocritical justification, it entirely failed to achieve. Not only were devises of lands, after a brief interval, put on a legal footing; but, as is well known, uses of lands as distinguished from legal estates, soon re-appeared in full vigour. Whilst in unforeseen directions, that statute worked havoc in the medieval system of conveyancing; and gradually modernized it out of existence.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
