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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.
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Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
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A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies one may say simply fineness of nature.
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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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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
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