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" Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. "

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" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. "

" 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. "

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

" A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. "

" The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. "

" No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. "

" It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. "

" He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. "