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" Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. "
John Ruskin
Soon
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" I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. "
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" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "
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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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" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "
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" He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. "
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" The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. "
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" When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. "
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" There is no wealth but life. "
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" I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? "
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" It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. "
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" The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. "
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" There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. "
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Only
Leaves
Flowers
" 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. "
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Shadows
Just
Enjoyed
" A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. "
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Kindness
Great
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" To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. "
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Know
Ignorance
" The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. "
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Love
Colour
" Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. "
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Every
New
Possession
" Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. "
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Without
Work
Better
" No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. "
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Representation
Done
Good
" 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. "
John Ruskin
Great
Sculptor
Person
" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "
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Saying
Power
Perfection
" 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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Architecture
Noble
" 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? "
John Ruskin
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Care
" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "
John Ruskin
Which
Beautiful
Nothing
" Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. "
John Ruskin
Love
Back
Great
" 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. "
John Ruskin
Pathetic
Feelings
Same
" A book worth reading is worth buying. "
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Reading
Worth
Buying
" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "
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Useless
World
Beautiful
" Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. "
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Unions
Work
" Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. "
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Punishment
Hands
Crime