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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.



Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.



Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.



Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.



Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.



Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.



Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.



Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.



There is no wealth but life.



Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.



The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.



Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.



In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.



Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future



Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.








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