“Friendship is love without her wings.” – Lord Byron
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“The wish for healing has always been half of health.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“To fail to love is not to exist at all.” – Mark Van Doren
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“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” – John Lubbock
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
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190 years ago today, one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America, Winslow Homer, was born. Born in Boston to a father always seeking to pull off a get-rich-quick scheme, Homer was molded by his mother; a talented watercolor painter who taught him the basics. His most prolific period was when he moved to Maine and began to paint the robustness of fishing and seagoing cultures there, producing iconic imagery of 19th-century America such as The Gulf Stream, The Fog Warning, and Breezing Up (A Fair Wind). READ about the man's life and see some of his paintings... (1836)
