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Art is a jealous mistress.

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

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The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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