“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
Work“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.”
Happiness“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
Work“A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.”
Great“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
Education“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
Experience“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
Education“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
Great“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
Good“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
Great“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”
Education“The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.”
Best“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
Art“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”
Truth“It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
Nature“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.”
Great“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
Great“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
Work“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
Beauty“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
Anger“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
Architecture“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
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