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" No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. "
John Ruskin
Kind
Manners
Person
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" The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. "
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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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Unions
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" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
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Haughty
Architecture
" Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. "
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Different
Place
" 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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World
Man
Only
" Civilization is the making of civil persons. "
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Making
Civil
Persons
" 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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Hand
You
Wish
" 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
" I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. "
John Ruskin
Landscape
Done
Painting
" 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. "
John Ruskin
Test
Man
Great
" Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. "
John Ruskin
Accuracy
Work
Men
" Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. "
John Ruskin
Effort
Brainy
Quality
" 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. "
John Ruskin
Good
Try
Time
" A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. "
John Ruskin
Kindness
Great
Thought
" 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
You
Books
Care
" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "
John Ruskin
Which
Beautiful
Nothing
" The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. "
John Ruskin
Sign
Price
Bought
" 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
" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "
John Ruskin
Find
Us
Reform
" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "
John Ruskin
Useless
World
Beautiful
" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
John Ruskin
Poetry
Soul
Religion
" 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? "
John Ruskin
Right
I Believe
Happy
" The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. "
John Ruskin
Women
Men
Power
" Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. "
John Ruskin
Endurance
Beauty
Patience
" It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "
John Ruskin
Saying
Power
Perfection
" Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. "
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Intellect
Passion
Skill
" No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. "
John Ruskin
Fish
Free
Great
" A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. "
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Person
Great
Effort
" The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. "
John Ruskin
Appearances
Science
Facts
" All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. "
John Ruskin
Books
Hour
Time