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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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" Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. "

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

" The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "

" Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. "

" There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. "

" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

" The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. "

" It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. "

" There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. "

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

" The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. "

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

" 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. "

" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "

" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "

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

" How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? "

" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

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