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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate drop in charity and it overflows love.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by chlorophyll, which at first sounds very instructive but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called green leaf, we should see more precisely how far we had got.
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
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