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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
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Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
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Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
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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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Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.
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Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.
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Morality does not depend on religion.
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
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