It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
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