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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
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All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
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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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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of 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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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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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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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.
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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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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
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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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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
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