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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Lebih baik karya yang paling kasar yang menceritakan sebuah kisah atau merekam fakta, dari pada yang terkaya namun tanpa makna. Seharusnya tidak ada ornamen tunggal yang diletakkan di atas bangunan sipil besar, tanpa niat intelektual.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Jauh lebih baik memberi pekerjaan di atas orang, daripada mendidik orang itu di atas pekerjaannya.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

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