He who is clever is stupid.
Time to Live
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Farmer in a Field, Vincent Van Gogh
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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Bedroom in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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L’Etoile du Nord
Minnesotans have a strength similar to their rivers, slowly and steadily carving a channel through iron-hard rock. The fluid and passive overcomes the hard and stubborn.
We are steeped in adversity and diversity. Immigrants find a welcoming place here, for they have suffered great trials already, and now add to our collective strength and resolve.
We have not forgotten that we are all the same in the eyes of our Creator, and that out of the many we are one. E Pluribus Unum!
We are a kind and welcoming people. Do not mistake kindness for weakness, and if you will behave like savages you are no longer welcome.
We have a strength borne out of a respect for the Truth, for this is what separates us from the animals. Out of lies comes a great distrust, hence, In God We Trust!
The song of Hiawatha beats in our hearts, of a passion for peace and unity. Like Minnehaha, fallen heroes lie under the snow and hemlocks.
We are the Star of the North, a guide for those who have lost hope and direction. Our light will continue to shine in the darkness.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Voltaire
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Wheat Field with Crows, Vincent Van Gogh
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Of Envy
THERE be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and envy. They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they come easily into the eye, especially upon the present of the objects; which are the points that conduce to fascination, if any such thing there be.
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Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self
AN ANT is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden. And certainly, men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public. Divide with reason; between self-love and society; and be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others; specially to thy king and country.
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