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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts--the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
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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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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
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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.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
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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.
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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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.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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