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" All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. "
Introduction
Children
Dancing
" A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. "
Nature
Produce
Never
" A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. "
Art
Thoughts
Room
" Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. "
Genius
Teach
Taste
" Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. "
Teachers
Been
Purpose
" If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. "
You
Great
Improve
" Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. "
Nothing
New
More
" It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. "
Orator
Eloquence
Talk
" The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. "
Nation
Man
Greatest
" The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. "
Found
His
Man
" There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. "
Will
Man
Labor
" The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. "
Art
Labor
Mental
" Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. "
Work
End
Language
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