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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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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
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Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.
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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God to him who does not search it out, darkness to him who does, infinity.
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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If you want knowledge, you must toil for it if food, you must toil for it and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
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A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.
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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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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
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