A Quote by Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Scottish - Judge
October 23, 1773 - January 26, 1850

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Andres Segovia

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Thomas Jefferson

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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Hippocrates

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Robert Grudin

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Allen Ginsberg

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Theodor W. Adorno

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[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

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Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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