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The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
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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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The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
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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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When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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