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Ancestors
..we wish to discover our ancestors, but we wish to discover them possessed of ample fortunes, and holding an eminent rank in the class...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Niebuhr
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Basho
Spring departs. Birds cry Fishes' eyes are filled with tears -Basho
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Emerson
Where there is no vision, a people perish. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Melville
The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them,...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Three things
I have just three things to teach:simplicity, patience, compassion. -Lao-Tzu
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Its ugly side
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -James Baldwin
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Kafka
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief. -Franz Kafka
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Act 1
Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man....
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
A passing shadow
Man is like a breath; his days are a like a passing shadow. -Psalm 144:4
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Sam Baker
May 2, 20190 min read
Nothing left to take away
A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Leonardo da...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Rose
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Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
da Vinci
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
We must do
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. -Leonardo...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
da Vinci
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even...
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Abandoned art
Art is never finished, only abandoned. -Leonardo da Vinci
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Well spent day
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” -Leonardo da Vinci
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
English horses.
Photograph of photograph
Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
Dirt road
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Sam Baker
May 2, 20191 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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