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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell?divine as the vale of Tempe you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light? You enterprised a railroad?you blasted its rocks away? And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
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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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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
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God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
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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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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
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In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
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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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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God to him who does not search it out, darkness to him who does, infinity.
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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.
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.
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The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.
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Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
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When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
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