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“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. ...
Raphael’s career falls naturally into 3 phases and 3 styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–08) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome.
Van Dyck became the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years.
The sisters Brontës, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, well known as poets and novelists. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.
“I live my life in widening circle
That reach out across the world.
I may not ever complete the last one,
But I give myself to it.
I circle around God, that primordial tower.
I have been circling for thousands of years,
And I still don't know...”
— Rilke