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That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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London
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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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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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
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It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.
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It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.
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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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The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
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The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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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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