“A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.”
Great“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.”
Men“A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.”
Great“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“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“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.”
Men“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.”
Art“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
Science“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“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
Society“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.”
Best“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
Great“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
Great“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
Education“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“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
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“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“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.”
Great“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“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
Education“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
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