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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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
England
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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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If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.
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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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Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
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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.
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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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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The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
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No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
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Morality does not depend on religion.
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Death is not a journey into an unknown land it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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It does not matter what the whip is it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
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