Candlelight

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit.”

-- Robert Shaffer

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Sunflower

“Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light."

-- Eugenio Montale

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Jumping Dog

"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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London

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

-- Samuel Johnson

Illustration: London: Northumberland House, by Canaletto, 1752, public domain

Fishing

"The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad."

-- A. K. Best

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The Grand Canal

"White phantom city, whose untrodden streets
Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting
Shadows of palaces and strips of sk..."

- H. W. Longfellow, Venice

Illustration: The Grand Canal, J. M. W. Turner, c. 1835, public domain

Spring Crocus

"Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire."
-- Virgil

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