"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."
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"A friend is the hope of the heart."
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"What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all."
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"Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind."
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"The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech."
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"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something."
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"Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?"
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"The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen."
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity."
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"Every word was once a poem."
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"Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms."
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"It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own."
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"It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities."
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"As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues."
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"Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art."
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"There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him."
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"Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid."
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"The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure."
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"We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor."
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