Quote #4

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

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  2. The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
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  7. A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
  8. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

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