This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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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.

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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.

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

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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

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