Tag: John Ruskin
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
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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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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.
John Ruskin