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

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

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" 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. "

" There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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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" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

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

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

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

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

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" Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. "

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