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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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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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No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.
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Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.
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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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Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.
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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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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
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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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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
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Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.
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