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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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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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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
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If you want knowledge, you must toil for it if food, you must toil for it and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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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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We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.
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It does not matter what the whip is it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
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Work first, and then rest.
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Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
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The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
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