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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

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Our strength grows out of our weakness.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

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The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

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God is Unity, but always works in variety.

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The world we live in is but thickened light.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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