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In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
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Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
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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.
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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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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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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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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.
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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
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Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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God alone can finish.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.
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