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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
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 greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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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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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 proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
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