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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.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.
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Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
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The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
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I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar in an antiquary's study, not the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
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Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
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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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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
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Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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