"Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth."
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"There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace."
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"The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one."
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"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition."
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"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."
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"Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death."
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"If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying."
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"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
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"And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride."
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"The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature."
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"Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they."
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"Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known."
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"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated."
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"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."
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"He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue."
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"The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others"
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"Genius is only a superior power of seeing."
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"Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust."
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"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."
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"There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul."
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