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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. "
John Ruskin
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" You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. "
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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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" 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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" All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. "
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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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Short
" 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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" 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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" 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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Healthy
Music
" All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. "
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Body
Great
" The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. "
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" The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. "
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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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Worth
Thing
" Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. "
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Land
Lending
" He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. "
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Who
Number
" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "
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Useless
World
Beautiful
" 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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Man
Only
" There is no wealth but life. "
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Wealth
Life
" 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
Painting
" Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. "
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Pride
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" Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. "
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Divided
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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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Power
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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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Buildings
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" To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. "
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Give
Nothing
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Me
You
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May
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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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Wish
I Wish
" 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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" The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. "
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Higher
Him