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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

- Joshua Reynolds
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.