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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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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by chlorophyll, which at first sounds very instructive but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called green leaf, we should see more precisely how far we had got.
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
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Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
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