English - Writer | February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
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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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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 book worth reading is worth buying.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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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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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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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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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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