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

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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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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

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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 architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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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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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

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

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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

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

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

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