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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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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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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
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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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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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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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Order and system are nobler things than power.
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one He has an altar in every man's dwelling.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
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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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Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.
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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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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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No day is without its innocent hope.
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All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.
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Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
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