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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.
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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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Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.
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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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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one He has an altar in every man's dwelling.
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