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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. "
John Ruskin
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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 work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. "
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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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" All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. "
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" Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. "
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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. "
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" It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. "
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" It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. "
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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 in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. "
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" 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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" 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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" He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. "
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" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "
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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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" 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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" The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. "
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" Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. "
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" A book worth reading is worth buying. "
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" There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. "
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" 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. "
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" That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. "
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" Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. "
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" 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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" 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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" A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. "
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" Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. "
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" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "
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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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