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"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
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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."
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"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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