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To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles God always gives us strength enough, and sense enough, for every thing that He wants us to do.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
Topic: Conceit
Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Function of the Artist
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I have a dog of Blenheim birth,
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running o'er the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again,
Like lightning on he goes!
Topic: Dogs
Source: My Dog Dash
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things
which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by
them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other
account than mere delight.
Topic: Enjoyment
Source: Stones of Venice (vol. I, ch. II)
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You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.
Topic: Growth
Source: None
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Topic: Honesty
Source: None
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A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
Topic: Knave
Source: None
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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Topic: Mountains
Source: True and Beautiful--Nature--Mountains (p. 91)
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He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
Topic: Observation
Source: None
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October's foliage yellows with his cold.
Topic: October
Source: The Months
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar
ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable
as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
Topic: Painting
Source: True and Beautiful--Painting (introduction)
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If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a
landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves
you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and
human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter,
it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that
move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours,
and the fullness thereof.
Topic: Painting
Source: The Two Paths (lect. I)
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When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris,
Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,
And to Versailles, although to go so far is
A thing not quite consistent with your ease,
And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is
To my describing what the traveller sees.
You who have ever been to Paris, know;
And you who have not been to Paris--go!
Topic: Paris
Source: A Tour Through France (st. 12)
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
Topic: Perfection
Source: None
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin,
Topic: Pride
Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Conception of God (p. 426)
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He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Topic: Punishment
Source: None
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.
Topic: Quality
Source: None
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Topic: Rivalry
Source: None
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Topic: Rivalry
Source: None
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
Topic: Spirituality
Source: None
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
Topic: Vanity
Source: None
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Topic: Weather
Source: None
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