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There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
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 essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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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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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of 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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I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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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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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
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It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
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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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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.
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