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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. "

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

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

" Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "

" It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. "

" 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. "

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

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

" You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "

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" The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. "

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