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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.