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• The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Lying, Inspiration, Practice

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.211

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• A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Life, War, Sea

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325

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• La cultura es como la riqueza: nos hace más nosotros mismos, nos permite expresarnos

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Culture, Wealth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886). “Human Intercourse”

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• Al aprender a conocer otras cosas y otras mentes, llegamos a conocernos más íntimamente a nosotros mismos, y para nosotros mismos vale más la pena conocernos.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Inspiración, Saber, Mente

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• 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

  Wise, Attention, Pay

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.142

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Strength, Exercise, Development And Growth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.396

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• Lo que nos deleita en primavera es más una sensación que una apariencia, más una esperanza que cualquier realidad visible. Hay algo en la suavidad del aire, en el alargamiento de los días, en los propios sonidos y olores del dulce tiempo, que nos acaricia y consuela tras las rigurosas semanas del invierno.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Dulce, Primavera, Invierno

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”

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• Nunca tengas miedo de lo que es bueno; lo bueno es siempre el camino hacia lo que es verdadero.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Bondad

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1878). “Modern Frenchmen: Five Biographies”

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• Necesitamos la sociedad, y también la soledad, como necesitamos el verano y el invierno, el día y la noche, el ejercicio y el descanso.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Summer, Exercise, Winter

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Mistake, Inspiration, People

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Sight, Feelings, Doe

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Life, Children, Men

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “Thoughts about Art”, p.158

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Men, Able

  PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1878). “MODERN FRENCHMEN”

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• Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Friendship, Beautiful, Art

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.303

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• All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Espiritual, Corazón, Hombres

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Work, Trying, Pleasure

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886). “Human Intercourse”

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  People, Prejudice, Acquaintance

  PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1878). “MODERN FRENCHMEN”

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• 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

  Sadness, Ideas, Tree

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”

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• 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

  Fashion, People, Study

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.309

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• Pocos de nosotros hemos sido tan excepcionalmente desafortunados como para no encontrar, en nuestra propia época, algún amigo experimentado que nos haya ayudado con valiosos consejos, que nunca olvidaremos. No podemos retribuirle con la misma moneda, pero tal vez, en la plenitud de los tiempos, nuestro deber más noble sea ayudar a otro como nosotros mismos hemos sido ayudados, y transmitirle un tesoro inestimable, la tradición de la vida intelectual.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Friends, Intellectual, Age

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.304

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• There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Cities, Water, Hart

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.433

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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.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Cat, Anxiety, May

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1874). “Chapters on Animals”, p.48

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• Así como no hay placer en la vida militar para un soldado que teme a la muerte, tampoco hay independencia en la existencia civil para el hombre que tiene un pavor abrumador a la soledad.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Military, Men, Solitude

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886). “Human Intercourse”

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

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Woe Unto, Solitude, Woe

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324

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• La alta cultura siempre aísla, siempre expulsa a los hombres de su clase y les hace más difícil compartir con naturalidad y facilidad la vida común de la clase que les rodea. Buscan a los pocos compañeros que puedan comprenderles y, cuando no los encuentran a una distancia transitable, se sientan y trabajan solos.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Distance, Men, Class

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328

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