A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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There is no wealth but life.
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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