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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. "

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

" 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. "

" To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. "

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

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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. "

" Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. "

" Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. "