"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
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"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
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"As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not."
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"So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world."
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"Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends."
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"To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true."
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"The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares."
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"I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold."
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"You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does."
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"It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man."
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"An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men."
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"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
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"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."
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"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
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"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
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"To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also."
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