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"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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