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"Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."
"A great man is always willing to be little."
"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one."
"Beauty is the pilot of the young soul."
"Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought."
"If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow."
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people."
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles."
"A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine."
"Nature hates calculators."
"God enters by a private door into every individual."
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural."
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
"Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial."
"Insist upon yourself. Be original."
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
"The years teach much which the days never know."