“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
Education“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
Experience“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
Education“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”
Work“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
Great“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“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
Architecture“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
Family“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.”
Death“You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
Religion“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
Art“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“Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.”
Good“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.”
Art“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
Beauty“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
Education“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
Society“No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.”
Age“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”
Art“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.”
Age“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
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