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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
John Ruskin
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
John Ruskin
Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
John Ruskin
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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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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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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
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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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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
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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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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
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Value is the life-giving power of anything cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.
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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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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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