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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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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Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
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Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
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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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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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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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You may sell your work, but not your soul.
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And besides the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
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I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
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