"First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others."
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"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality."
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"We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand."
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"The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny."
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"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."
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"On every mountain height is rest."
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"My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits."
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"Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it"
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"I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music."
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"Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage"
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"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them."
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"Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight."
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"Our earthly ball a peopled garden."
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"One must be something, in order to do something."
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"And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven."
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"Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed"
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"We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more."
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"Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society."
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"Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different."
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"I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished."
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