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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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I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.
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Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
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The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.
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If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
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