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Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
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He who is not actively kind is cruel!
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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
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All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of virtue is that straightness of back.
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There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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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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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
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Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
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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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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
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You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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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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The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable not concealed, but incomprehensible it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
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