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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

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The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

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Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

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