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" Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. "

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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? "

" All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. "

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

" Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. "

" 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. "

" No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

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" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

" Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. "

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" 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. "