Quote #22

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

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  1. Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
  2. How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
  3. I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
  4. You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, o…
  5. It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, t…
  6. In old times, men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith; in later times, they used the objects of faith that they migh…
  7. There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
  8. Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

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