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

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" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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" Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. "

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

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

" One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. "

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" Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. "

" All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "

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

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

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