#darin

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#after #architecture #cradle #daring #elaboration

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#character #daring #energy #had #him

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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The loving are the daring. ↗

— Bayard Taylor

#loving

Daring to wear something different takes effort. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#different #different takes #effort #something #takes

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#daring #men #business

Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#daring #love #poetry #risk #death

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#romantic-adventure #romantic

Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing. ↗

— David Richo

#inspirational #nonfiction #inspirational