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Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. - [Praise] Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,--feel it, and hate in silence. - [Fame] He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down. - [Respect] In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others; for injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. - [Self-conceit] It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm. - [Lying] It was Dante who called this noble art God's grandchild. - [Sculpture] Make no man your idol; for the best man must have faults, and his faults will usually become yours in addition to your own. This is as true in art as in morals. - [Idolatry] Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect. - [Vanity] No man knows himself as an original. - [Originality] Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. - [Selfishness] The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. - [Painting] The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a "conscientious" detractor. - [Lying] The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. - [Painting] Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, "We are one!" - America to Great Britain [America]
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