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Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
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