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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
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