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Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

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?

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: In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

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: Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

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.

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: Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton quotes: Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

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.

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: The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

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.

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.