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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling only out of your neighbor.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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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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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by chlorophyll, which at first sounds very instructive but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called green leaf, we should see more precisely how far we had got.
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A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
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I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
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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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The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
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No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
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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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