QUOTES by John Ruskin
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"They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame."
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"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."
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"The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle."
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"What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money."
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"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."
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"It is not, truly speaking, the labor 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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"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."
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"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride"
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"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."
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"Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself."
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"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment."
Quote by -John Ruskin