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See! This our fathers did for us.
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
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The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
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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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Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate drop in charity and it overflows love.
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
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