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" You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. "

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" No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. "

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" When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no wealth but life. "

" All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. "

" 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. "

" Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. "

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" I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? "

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

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

" 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. "