In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
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