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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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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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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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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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There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
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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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Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
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We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.
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