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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Death is not a journey into an unknown land it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said Let him touch it. So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.
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Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
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That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
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Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.
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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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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
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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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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.
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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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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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