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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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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.
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There is no wealth but life. Life
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This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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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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There is no wealth but life.
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
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Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
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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.
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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.
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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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?
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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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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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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. Nature
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
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The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.
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