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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
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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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God to him who does not search it out, darkness to him who does, infinity.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.
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There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
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I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
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The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
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