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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom and Peter's, the shore of Galilee and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which station in life each had to leave, with brief notice.
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... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)
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Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
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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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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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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
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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 love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.
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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
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There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
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