Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
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Gardening, as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.Joshua Reynolds
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
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A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
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