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"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
"Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee."
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
"I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove."
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"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
"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."
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion."
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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