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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
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The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
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If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it if possible, try for it.
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said Let him touch it. So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.
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[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.
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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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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
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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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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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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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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
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We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.
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