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"Give a judgment on yourself before you think about giving it to me: and if you don't judge yourself correctly, then don't start judging another."

✒ #EdméBoursault, French author, playwright, and poet, #DOTD 15 September 1701. #Theatre #Literature

"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance."

🎬 #RobertWise, American director and producer, #DOTD 14 September 2005. #Filmmaking

"As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't."

✒ #JohnGardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic, #DOTD 14 September 1982. #Literature

“In recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama.” [Nobel Prize]

✒ #JoséEchegaray, Spanish mathematician, playwright and Nobel Laureate 1904, #DOTD 14 September 1916.

🎨 #JohannesBosboom, Dutch painter, #DOTD 14 September 1891. #Art #Painting

"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."

⚔️ #ArthurWellesley, 1st #DukeofWellington, Anglo-Irish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, #DOTD 14 September 1852. #History

"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."

✒ #JamesFenimoreCooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian, #DOTD 14 September 1851. #Literature #History

🎨 #NicolasLancret, French painter, #DOTD 14 September 1743. #Art #Painting

"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground."

Poem: allpoetry.com/Sir_Thomas_O...

✒ #ThomasOverbury, English poet, #DOTD 14 September 1613. #Poetry #Literature

“Here powers failed my high imagination:
But by now my desire and will were turned,
Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,
By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

✒️ #DanteAlighieri, Italian Renaissance poet, #DOTD 14 September 1321. #Poetry #Literature

"If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice."

🕯️ #JohnChrysostom, 'golden-mouthed', Early Church father, famous preacher and Saint (Patriarch of Constantinople 398-403), #DOTD 14 September 407 AD.

Conductor Leopold Stokowski died on this day in 1977 #dotd A showman, courted by Hollywood (notably in Disney’s Fantasia), his self-conscious style sometimes obscured fine musicianship. He championed Mahler’s music before it became fashionable. Here he is conducting Mahler 2 at a legendary 1960 Prom

#VER #DOTD?! I like the guy but come on! What did he do but stay in the middle of the track? Even he said as much! Dumb voters. #SpanishGP #Madring #F1 #Formula1 #LN4 #LN1

I got love for my brother
But we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other
We gotta start makin' changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers...

🎶 #TupacShakur #DOTD 13 September 1996. #2PAC #Rap #HipHop

"Changes": ▶️ youtu.be/eXvBjCO19QY

🎨 #WalterGoetz, illustrator, cartoonist, and painter, #DOTD 13 September 1995. #Art #Painting #Illustration