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Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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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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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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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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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling only out of your neighbor.
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
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Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.
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In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
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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 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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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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