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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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There is no wealth but life.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
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It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
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Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.
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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
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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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In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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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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Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
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The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.
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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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