QUOTES by John Ruskin
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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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"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
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"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."
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"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
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"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
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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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"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
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"What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?"
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
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"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."
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"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
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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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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."
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"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."
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"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
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"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
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"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
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"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
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"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."
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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil"
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"You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement."
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"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"
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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
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"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."
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"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."
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"To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy."
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"The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work."
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