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In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
A little bread and wine in a dungeon sufficed for the liturgy of the martyrs (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Content to do the best work he could, to preserve his own dignity, and leave the rest to future (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
The art of painting does not proceed so much by intelligence as by sight and feeling and invention (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
He was a democrat in the best sense, earnestly desiring the elevation of the people to a higher plane of intellectual and moral life, as well as their political emancipation (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest (Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes)