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• Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the…
• I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory…
• If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
• It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
• Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a…
• A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
• Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
• Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste…
• Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
• The real character of a man is found out by his amusements....
• The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless…
• Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in…

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