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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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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Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
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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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You may sell your work, but not your soul.
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Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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