Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

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Of Heaven of Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears,...

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I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

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