Famous quotes containing the words venus and/or observation:
“For her own person,
It beggared all description: she did lie
In her pavilioncloth of gold, of tissue
Oer-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Men look on knowledge which they learnor might learnfrom others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbors palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
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