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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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" What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? "

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