"Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights."
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"When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do."
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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
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"When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet."
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"There is no wealth but life."
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"If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law."
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"Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life."
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"Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us."
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"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."
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"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
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"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
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"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
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"God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place."
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"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."
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"The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike."
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"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."
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"I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only."
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"A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe."
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"If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength."
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"All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy."
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