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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
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Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
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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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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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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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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
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We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
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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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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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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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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
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In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.
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