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A book worth reading is worth buying.
[ Books - Reading ]
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
[ Greatness ]
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
[ Cost ]
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
[ Inheritance ]
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
[ Imagination ]
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
[ Civilization ]
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
[ Possessions ]
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
[ Status ]
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
[ Freedom ]
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Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
[ Giving ]
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
[ Imagination ]
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
[ Pride ]
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
[ Restraint ]
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
[ Money ]
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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
[ Learning ]
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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
[ Guilt ]
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
[ Economy and Economics ]
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
[ Architecture ]
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
[ Photography ]
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
[ Ability ]
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
[ Fishing ]
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
[ Beauty ]
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
[ Rivalry ]
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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
[ Color ]
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
[ Knowledge ]
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One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
[ Death and Dying ]
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
[ Borrowing ]
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
[ Skill ]
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
[ Slavery ]
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
[ Spirit and Spirituality ]
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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
[ Desire ]
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
[ Anger ]
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The best thing in life aren't things.
[ Value ]
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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
[ Work ]
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
[ Education ]
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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
[ Children ]
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
[ Slavery ]
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
[ Education ]
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
[ Vulgarity ]
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
[ Success ]
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
[ Imagination ]
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The last act crowns the play.
[ Plays ]
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
[ Color ]
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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
[ Language ]
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
[ Nature ]
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
[ Nations ]
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
[ Science and Scientists ]
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There is no wealth but life.
[ Life and Living ]
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