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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
By John Ruskin
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
By John Ruskin
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
By John Ruskin
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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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.
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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.
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
By John Ruskin
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
By John Ruskin