“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“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
Anger“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“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
Nature“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
Best“A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.”
Great“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
Education“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
Architecture“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
Art“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“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
Education“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
Architecture“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
Work“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“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
Education“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“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
Education“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”
Great“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“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
Great“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
Experience“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
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