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" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

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" Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. "

" The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. "

" No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. "

" An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. "

" Whether for life or death, do your own work well. "

" When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. "

" 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. "

" A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. "

" 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. "

" Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. "

" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "

" I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? "

" You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. "

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. "

" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "

" 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. "

" No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. "

" Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. "

" You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. "

" The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. "

" The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. "

" Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. "

" Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. "

" All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. "

" Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. "

" Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. "

" 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. "

" The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. "