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Letter "J" » Joshua Reynolds Quotes
«The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.»
«A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts»
«The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it»
«If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.»
Author: Joshua Reynolds
(Painter)
«All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master»
Author: Joshua Reynolds
(Painter)
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«Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.»
Author: Joshua Reynolds
(Painter)
«Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing»
Author: Joshua Reynolds
(Painter)
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«Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work»
«There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.»
«It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk»
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