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John Ruskin


English
February 8, 1819
Writer
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.


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A book worth reading is worth buying.


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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.


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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.


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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.


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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.


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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.


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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.


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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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Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.


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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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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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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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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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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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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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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
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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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