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



Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.



Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.



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.



Architecture is the work of nations.



Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.



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.



I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?



Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.



Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.



Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.



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.



Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.



Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.



Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.








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