“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.”
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.