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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship or nobly, which is done in pride.
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Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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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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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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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
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Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
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Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
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It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.
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A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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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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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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