Duchess County, NY Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ​ ​ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Half Moon Farm One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Oscar Wilde

Castellanos Always be a little unexpected. ​ Oscar Wilde The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ​ Percy Bysshe Shelley ​ A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. ​ Oscar Wilde Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. ​ J. K. Rowling

The Old Mill Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. ​ Oscar Wilde

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Sacred Heart Church Imagination is the eye of the soul. ​ Joseph Joubert Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ​ Irving Berlin

Chinquapin An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful that hasn't been seen before? ​ Francis Ford Coppola Whatever you are, be a good one.

Turkey Ridge The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. ​ John Muir Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. ​ Oscar Wilde Trust the seeds you are planting. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ​ Georgie Bernard Shaw

Blackberry Farm I want you to believe... to believe in things that you cannot. ​ Bram Stoker

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The Vineyards at Betty's Creek "In the modern-day mindless pace and rush for the inconsequential, w e perhaps have forgotten and thus abandoned the precious cultural birthright of traditions of family and home. In remembering the past lies something essential to understanding the present and the future." Jim Wayne Miller From Home To Jericho