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Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.

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Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

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Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

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Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

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Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

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