It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.Joshua Reynolds
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
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