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" 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. "

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" It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. "

" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. "

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

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

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

" 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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