John Ruskin

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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.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
There is no wealth but life.
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.
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.
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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