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

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

" That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. "

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

" Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "

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

" 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. "

" The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. "

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

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

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

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

" There is no wealth but life. "

" 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. "

" The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. "

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" 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. "

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