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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.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.
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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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Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
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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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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate drop in charity and it overflows love.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
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Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
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God alone can finish.
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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
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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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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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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.
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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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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
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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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