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" Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. "
John Ruskin
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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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" A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. "
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" No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. "
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" It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. "
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" There is no wealth but life. "
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" Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole 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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" There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. "
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" You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. "
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" All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. "
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" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
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" The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. "
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" Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. "
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" Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. "
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Mind
Kind
" 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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" Whether for life or death, do your own work well. "
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" Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. "
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" The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. "
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Love
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" That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. "
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Greatest
Noble
" Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "
John Ruskin
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You
" A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. "
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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? "
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" The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. "
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" The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. "
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" It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. "
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