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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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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But yo...
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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 ...
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Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space i...
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art ... consists.
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot ...
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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has ...
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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.
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It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.
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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. Nature
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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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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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