"There are natures that go to the streams……" — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
"There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks."
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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16 Quotes by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton has 16 quotes on this site.
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The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a…
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We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when…
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A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and…
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Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
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The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
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You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a…
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People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.
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All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of…
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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to…
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest,…
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Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
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