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" Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. "
John Ruskin
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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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" 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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" The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. "
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" Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. "
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" The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. "
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" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "
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" Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. "
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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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" When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. "
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" 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. "
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" All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. "
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Time
" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "
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" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. "
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" No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. "
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Thought
Change
" Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. "
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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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Done
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" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "
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" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
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Haughty
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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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" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "
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" The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. "
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" That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. "
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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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" In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. "
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" There is no wealth but life. "
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" 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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" One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. "
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