The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. -Sir Joshua Reynolds

 

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.


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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

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

Sir Joshua Reynolds

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

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.

Sir Joshua Reynolds