English - Writer | February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin
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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
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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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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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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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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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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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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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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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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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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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