The function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Author: Leonardo da Vinci

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The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

My love's more richer than my tongue.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees books, in the running brooks sermons, in stones and good in everything.