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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
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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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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
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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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Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.
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We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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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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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 man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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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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All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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