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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.
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The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
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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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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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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
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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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God alone can finish.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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And besides the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?
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A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies one may say simply fineness of nature.
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling only out of your neighbor.
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
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