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

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" Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. "

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

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

" An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. "

" I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. "

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" The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. "

" Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. "

" 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. "

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

" It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. "

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

" It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. "

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