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Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?
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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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
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The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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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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No day is without its innocent hope.
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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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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.
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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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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate drop in charity and it overflows love.
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The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
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Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.
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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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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
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