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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
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 first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.
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Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.
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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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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.
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The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
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There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
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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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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
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Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
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