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Samuel Palmer Biography

Samuel Palmer (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

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There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep quiet when they are not wanted, and, when taken up, bring us face to face with the choicest men who ever lived, at their choicest moments.

Book, Keep, Like, Men, Taken, Things

Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former associations and friendships, and catch that Baylor spirit again?

Associations, Baylor, Care, Lay, Usual

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fools, Wise, Repeat

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

Art, Said, Has Beens, Thought, Thing

When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution is the mother of fortitude, and not only necessary to our support, but very much conducive to our deliverance.

Mother, Struggle, Adversity, Discouraged, Ought

When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

Mary, Moon, Nurse, Standing, Wall, Years

I hope to begin a new plan. . . not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

Begin, Matter, Plan, Plans, Sitting, Sitting Down

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

Charm, Etching, Glimmering, Shadow, White

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Cities, Live, Pleasure, Poetry, Poetry Is, Rural

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Advice, Eye, Keep, Life, Open, Shut

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion

Baited, Cat, Fierce, Lions, May

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