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How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly
that
the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course
I
could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit the Frog, muppet

Love: St. Augustine Quotes
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

VI



Then let not winter\'s ragged hand deface,

In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill\'d:

Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place

With beauty\'s treasure ere it be self-kill\'d.

That use is not forbidden usury,

Which happies those that pay the willing loan;

That\'s for thy self to breed another thee,

Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;

Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,

If ten of thine ten times refigur\'d thee:

Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,

Leaving thee living in posterity?

  Be not self-will\'d, for thou art much too fair

  To be death\'s conquest and make worms thine heir.

 	--William Shakespeare