Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes
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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.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.
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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.
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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.
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The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.