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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

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

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

" 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. "

" All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. "

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

" Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. "

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

" It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. "

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

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

" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "

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

" 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. "

" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "

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

" The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. "

" 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. "

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

" Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. "

" The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. "

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

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

" The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. "