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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to…
• The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly…
• There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every…
• Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.
• Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that…
• Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
• A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by…
• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
• It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve…
• The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

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