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"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."
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"Failure exists. Yes! Failure exists. Don't expect to meet all your expectations in life; however, expect to do everything you must do to realize your expectations and success. These two things success and failure have in common; they both responds to uncertainty and they are triggered by action."
"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."
"Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children."
"We should see our calling as our life's major assignment."
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