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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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London
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
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All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of virtue is that straightness of back.
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There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
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Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
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No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
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