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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

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.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.