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Give me love and work - these two only.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.
Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss?”
No man is good enough to be another's master.
By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will -- what matters it?
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
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