Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.
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All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.Joshua Reynolds
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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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.
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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 mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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