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/ page 592 of 1205 /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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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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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.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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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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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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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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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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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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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 sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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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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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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