Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes

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• The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that…
• We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
• Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the…
• A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength…
• Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
• The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
• There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
• You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to…
• People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
• All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than…
• The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
• Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
• Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of…
• In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
• Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves
• What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the…

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