I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

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Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

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I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

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Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument ― Leonardo da Vinci

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The greatest deception which men incur proceeds from their opinions. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

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