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" Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. "
John Ruskin
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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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" There is no wealth but life. "
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" Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. "
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" It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. "
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" To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. "
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" When we build, let us think that we build for ever. "
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" When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. "
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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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" Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. "
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" Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. "
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" Whether for life or death, do your own work well. "
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" Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. "
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" The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. "
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" An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. "
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" Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. "
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" No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. "
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" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "
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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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" All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. "
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" Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. "
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" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
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" Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. "
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" The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. "
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" Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. "
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