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'Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.'

'Faith is a passionate intuition.'

'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'

'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'

'In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing'

'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.'

'Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.'

'The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.'

'What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.'

Born in Cockermouth, Cumbria
Died in Ambleside, Cumbria
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