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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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There is no wealth but life.
Written by John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
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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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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
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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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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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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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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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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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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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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 highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
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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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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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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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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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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Written by John Ruskin

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