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

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

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

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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