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Morality does not depend on religion.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
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Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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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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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.
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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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... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
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If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one He has an altar in every man's dwelling.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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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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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God to him who does not search it out, darkness to him who does, infinity.
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God alone can finish.
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Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?
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