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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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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."
"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."
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