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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. "

John Ruskin

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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? "

" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "

" No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. "

" No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. "

" No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. "

" The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. "

" Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. "

" Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. "

" Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. "

" In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. "

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. "

" To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. "

" Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. "

" The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. "

" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "

" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "

" Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. "

" 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. "

" The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. "

" An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. "

" There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. "

" The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. "

" Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. "

" No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. "

" No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. "

" Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. "

" A book worth reading is worth buying. "

" There is no wealth but life. "

John Ruskin

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