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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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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A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
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Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
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God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
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Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar in an antiquary's study, not the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
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Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
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The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.
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