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Carl Friedrich Lessing - "Monastery courtyard in the snow" (c.1829)

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"A Page Buckling on a Knight's Armour" by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1860-1927

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“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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"After Dinner on the Terrace" by Marcel Rieder (1862–1942)

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"Ophélie" by Jean-Baptiste Bertrand, 1867

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"He who builds on the people, builds on the mud."

Niccolo Machiavelli, from The Prince

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"Primevères" by Jan Bogaerts, 1936

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John Collier, Marion Collier (née Huxley), detail, 1882-1883

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“Sleeping Woman” by Alexander von Liezen-Mayer, 1896

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The Artist’s Wife sitting at a Window in a Sunlit Room, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe

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“A star looks down at me, And says: ‘Here I and you Stand, each in our degree. What do you mean to do,— Mean to do?’ I say: ‘For all I know, Wait, and let Time go by, Till my change come,’—‘Just so.’ The star says: ‘So mean I;— So mean I.’”

— ​Thomas Hardy, “Waiting Both,” Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy, ed. John Crowe Ransom (Macmillan 1961)

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Twilight    -    Harald Slott-Møller , 1918.

Danish, 1864-1937

Oil on canvas, 58 x 81 cm. 

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Still Life with Azaleas and Apple Blossoms 1878. Charles Caryl Coleman

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“Paolo and Francesca” by Sir Frank Dicksee, 1894

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“A Woman at a Fountain with Rising Moon” by Ferdinand Knab, 1866 (detail)

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“The Play Scene in Hamlet” by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1897 (detail)

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“Bacchante” by Edgar Maxence, 19th century