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I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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London
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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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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
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When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
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He who is not actively kind is cruel!
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God alone can finish.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
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