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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
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.