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"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

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

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."

"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."

"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."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition."

"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."

"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."

"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."

"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind."

"Whether for life or death, do your own work well."

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