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" All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. "

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

" 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. "

" One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. "

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

" Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "

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

" The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. "

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" 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. "

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

" It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. "

" The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. "

" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "

" When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. "

" When we build, let us think that we build for ever. "

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

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" I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. "

" 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. "

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

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