Tag: John Ruskin
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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
John Ruskin
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
John Ruskin
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John Ruskin
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin
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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.
John Ruskin