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George Frederic Watts, (sometimes spelled George Frederick Watts) (London 23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor...

through the whole of Being. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, as quoted in the Introduction to The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1882), as translated by Mary...

awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal Intime, entry for December 17, 1856 (1882). Passion is terrifying...

blows, I give you as we part For you it is a rose For me it is my heart. Frederic Peterson—At Parting. There was never a daughter of Eve but once, ere the...

didn't know it was a 'painting' until much later) was 'Hope' [of George Frederic Watts, 1886] the woman sitting on the globe with.. .that green [of the...

the tempest raves, The deep immense Atlantic Is still beneath the waves. Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 - 1901), "Wind, Moon and Tides". We love the...

difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal Men give way before the power of genius, they hate it and...

* With his arms full of hymnbooks … Rang his voice, "Put Watts into 'em—Boys, give 'em Watts." Bret Harte, Caldwell of Springfield. An hour ago, a Star...

their bones. Frederic Remington, “Under Which King?” Collier’s Weekly, (April 8, 1899), as quoted in The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Peggy...

eternal Truth enlighten it. James Clerk Maxwell, Paper communicated to Frederic Farrar (1854) Æt. 23, as quoted in Lewis Campbell, William Garnett, The...

should I fear Death, Who gives us life, and in exchange takes breath? Frederic L. Knowles, Laus Mortis, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical...

Robert Watts said to a crowd in Washington that “if they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is LBJ.” Watts was promptly...

buried many celebrated writers, including Balzac, Molière, Oscar Wilde and Frédéric Chopin. Matthew Mudd (unknown) from Massachusetts: "Here lies Matthew Mudd...

well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel, When a Woman Meets Jesus: Finding the Love Every Woman Longs For...

usłyszę. Translation: Play Mozart in memory of me—and I will hear you. Who: Frederic Chopin, Polish composer and pianist. Note: He had a neurotic fear of being...

all that silvery sensitiveness that can be seen in his fine portrait by Watts. He boasted none of that brutal optimism with which his friends and followers...

on this shitty boat. Fuck...has it been 8 hours? Who: Jay 'Chef' Hicks (Frederic Forrest) Note: Is decapitated offscreen shortly after uttering these words...

No taxation without representation Nobody does chicken like KFC. KFC Frédéric Beigbeder, Was £9.99 Now £6.99: A Novel (2003), p. 257. Nothing outlasts...

the dead. Giacomo Leopardi, trans. Charles Edwardes, Dialogue between Frederic Ruysch and his Mummies, Essays and Dialogues (1833). I found myself desperately...