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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
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I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.
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I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said Let him touch it. So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
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One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
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Order and system are nobler things than power.
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Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
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Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
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I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.
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