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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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Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
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Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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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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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.
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Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
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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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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.
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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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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar in an antiquary's study, not the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.
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