"The best thing in life aren't things."
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"There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder."
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"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him."
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"You can only possess beauty through understanding it."
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"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."
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"All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy."
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"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."
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"All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power."
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"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."
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"Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass."
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"He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great."
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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
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"Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn."
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"It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear."
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"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."
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"He who offers God a second place offers Him no place."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons."
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"To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions."
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"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."
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