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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

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What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

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It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

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