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

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" 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. "

" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "

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

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

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

" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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