Attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds, in: Frederick Hilles, The Literary Career Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1936, ch. I., Education, p. 3:
If you take too much care of yourself, Nature will cease to take care of you.
A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
Hermann Hesse, In the Mist = Im Nebel , tr. Harry Steinhauer: Strange, to wander in the mist! Every bush and stone is lo...
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