"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook."
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"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
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"God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it."
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"Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness."
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"It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride."
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"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it."
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"The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate."
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"The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them."
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"You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any."
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"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."
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"A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself."
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"On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong."
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"We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts."
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"I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful."
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"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."
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"Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example."
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"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."
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