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" A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. "

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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. "

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

" Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. "

" 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? "

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

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

" Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. "

" Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. "

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

" 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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" Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. "

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

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

" We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "

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

" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

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

" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "

" Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. "

" 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. "

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

" In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. "

" Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. "

" 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. "