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Goldwin Smith

"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."

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"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

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"Better to be dirty than dead."

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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

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"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

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"In silence we are loving and kind, in a crowd we become blind."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

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"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"

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"Personality is lower than partiality."
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"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city."
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"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."
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"But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him."
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"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."
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"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."
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"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."
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"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages."
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"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
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"America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious."
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