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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
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Multitudes think they like to do evil yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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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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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
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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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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
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