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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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London
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
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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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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
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That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.
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Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically morally, none whatsoever.
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When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
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Multitudes think they like to do evil yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.
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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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